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. Stephen Mulvany:

The highest on-call payment and the highest individual payment, if I am correct, is all for one individual. It is one consultant surgeon in one of our hospitals. It is due to what are, in fairness, exceptional circumstances. It was a four-member consultant surgeon team which at one stage in 2014 had reduced to a one-member consultant team. That one member was trying to cover for the rest and because it was surgery, there were particular additional payments in respect of the need to keep what we call the four-week urgent colonoscopy lists up to date. This is a well-managed hospital and this was a truly exceptional requirement.

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