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 have an idea and obviously there have been figures floated in the public domain before. I think it has been widely speculated that it is in the order of €600 million. My job is to manage it down, not to suggest figures to our own system that give a licence to spend, if you understand what I mean. I have been engaged lately in a very firm process designed to ensure that the end of year requirement is minimised to the greatest extent possible, consistent with the safe delivery of health services.
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