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. Barry O'Brien:

We are helping, particularly with the procurement elements and the data elements. Obviously, we have the Office of Government Procurement, which has a particular expertise, and, given the size of the drugs bill involved in these negotiations, obviously pulling on board that expertise is highly beneficial in terms of the negotiation. As for the issue of when this process started, we have been pulling together the material for the guts of six months, and given that it is a huge effort to get there with all the parties involved, we hope to be able to commence negotiations in January.

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