Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does that not alert the HSE to a problem? That they will not sign the forms to get their fees - one would think this means they have income due to them - suggests to me that they think they should not be signing those forms. How can the HSE include what it is due from the hospitals as income if consultants are willing to forego the fees that the HSE believes are due to them as part of the locked-in claim on the basis that the two go together? I suggest that the consultant cannot get his fee without the HSE getting its payment and vice versa. By how much would the consultants be out of pocket if that €290 million was not paid? If they have come to the conclusion that they do not even want to claim this money, I wonder how much of it is really due.