Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask the HSE to send us an age analysis on that.

On the other side, Mr. Mulvany referred to private health insurance companies encouraging people to not give their private insurance company details because any patient is entitled to a public service. On the other hand we are now seeing the opposite where a lot of private patients going to accident and emergency departments run by the private insurance companies, which is possibly reducing some of the numbers attending the public hospitals.

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