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 €334,000 is an on-call payment so it is actually part of their contractual payments but it is not normal for a consultant to do that level of on-call. Equally, it is not normal for a consultant to have to try to cover what was a four-man team alone. It raises a number of issues, clearly, but the national director of acute hospitals has actually engaged with both the group and the individual hospital. There is a fair amount of back-up information and it looks to me like a truly exception situation.
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