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. Seamus McCarthy:
Explanations are given for the variances in terms of the kinds of factors referred to by the chief executive. Some of them are demand-led factors. The key question that arises is why the Estimate is what it is; that is the beginning of the process and what the variances are designed to explain.
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