Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
Sure. What I would not want to do, however, is to have the HSE take on a whole series of responsibilities which are wider than the HSE and which might more properly be done by other public bodies. It is interesting that if one's name appears on the list of directors filed at the Companies Registration Office, even if one does not know about it, one is a director in law. When this all came out, persons who were in that situation found themselves having to act as directors of Console during this interim period and making the decisions about liquidation, etc. At a macro level, it would be far simpler and more effective that rather than the HSE, given that we are basically a health service provider, having to start verifying the names and legitimacy of registrations of directors, that such might be a change to the way we handle the registration of companies at a societal level. That would be more effective. Otherwise, one would have all arms of the public sector, rather than just one, having to do this.
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