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
Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We have fleshed out the issue. The witnesses have said they would come back to set out some sort of plan as to how this will be fixed. If a nurse did not sign off on a chart for three years, there would be a problem. Consultants are an extremely vital cog of the health service but that is what they are. There are many other moving parts and I doubt other professionals in the area would get away with some of what we have discussed.
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