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
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Essentially, Mr. Barry O'Brien is stating that the people who signed this agreement the last time did not have an overall picture of what they were signing. That is the implication. Mr. O'Brien is telling me his Department is getting bits from here and there and how an overall picture is needed. By implication, he is stating that the people who signed the last agreement did not have an overall picture of what they signed. I shudder to think of the cost, which I know was more than €1 billion. This is what Mr. O'Brien is saying to me.
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