Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin, is part of the Children's hospital group. The latter has a clinical director and a CEO who reports directly to our head of acute operations so there is not a long leap there. If anyone has specific proposals they want to share with me, I can assist in pointing them in the right direction but, generally speaking, the route is well known. Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin, has a CEO, there is a group CEO and there is a national director for acute operations. That tends to be the route along which these things go. The challenge about it being in a different budgetary line is one we must face. If there are real savings there, we must look at them. Again, people's idea of what constitutes a saving tends to vary. I suggest that the individuals in question could use any one of those lines - their own CEO, the hospital group or indeed the national director, with whom people would often communicate directly. We can take it through that process. I am quite happy to assist if people want to communicate with me directly and I can point them to the right part of the organisation.

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