Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013

10:00 am

Mr. John Swords:

All of that has come together. With any of the contracts now that go in place, we put in a mechanism. The legislation is there from the point of view of the Government but in regard to voluntary hospitals with their own entities there was a complication within that. We took a model, a collaborative model, so we have agreement across health that we will work together. For example, if there is an organisation, such as a large hospital like Beaumont or St. James's and they have a specialty, they will take the contract on behalf of health as distinct from the hospital and, vice versa, the HSE will take the contracts. All of the contracts that we put in place from herein will represent health.

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