Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

One of the things that happened relates to the crash and the effect of that on property at a time when GPs were seeking to develop group practices. They had invested in properties and the centres did not fail for healthcare reasons, but in some cases they were caught by the property bubble and the financing. We have now got a very significant programme of primary care centre roll-out. We are rolling them out as direct builds by the HSE. Where the HSE owns centres we are rolling them out as leases, where the HSE leases the primary care centres.

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