Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Ciarán Breen:
No. We do not have a document which would say that, for example, a perforated hernia is worth a certain amount of money, the reason being that cases by and large are not about a single factor. They tend to be much more complex, the reason being it is very difficult to say that one case has a value of €30,000 and another has a value of €50,000 yet the range of injuries might be relatively non-variable. The issue is how they impact on the person, the age of the person, the sex of the person and so on. There are many qualitative differences that lie in these issues.
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