Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Ms Anne O'Connor:
In terms of the change notice, that is where additional funding or there is a significant change within the year. So where there is a signed arrangement - in this case, in 2013, the additional funding was provided for the helpline, as we have previously discussed - that change contract notice is a part of the existing service arrangement that is completed. It means we are not issuing a new service arrangement mid-year and then it is incorporated at the beginning of the following year. It is a standard process where we provide additional funding or make a different change, not just funding related, mid-year.
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