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:
In this case, the effect is a cashflow one but cashflow is much more real for the system next year than it has been hitherto. The penalties that have been applied for waiting lists can be retrieved. Hospitals that do not meet minimum standards mid-year stand to be penalised for those breaches if they do not meet those standards by the end of the year. By improved performance at year end, however, they can effectively escape the penalties that would have applied for mid-year breaches.
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