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:
I suspect it would be. I think that our levying of any such charge would be unlawful and open to challenge. The Deputy suggested private providers might be of a quantum of three or four times what it costs us to provide but it is not of that order. It is of a lower order of magnitude.
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