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:
Our business is public healthcare, and we are there to treat people on a public basis. If somebody says he or she has insurance and wants to be treated on a private or semi-private basis in a public hospital, the hospital is entitled to charge for that at a daily rate. The public hospital has a responsibility to give public healthcare to anybody who is entitled to it.
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