Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines

10:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Exactly. The payments are subject to a heightened degree of scrutiny. In respect of some of the HSE locations and matching the level of financial activity, while we cannot do so now, we are happy to provide the information for the committee. The level of financial activity in some of the smaller hospitals mentioned simply was not commensurate with the nature of the allegations made. In other words, the level of trading was so small it could not have supported the type of kickbacks being alleged. The major issue exposed by the programme obviously was in St. Vincent's University Hospital, which has been carrying out a forensic audit to which Mr. Swords has referred and where the scale of activity was much greater than in any of the smaller HSE hospitals.

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