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
Mr. Jim Breslin:
I can give the Deputy some of the top line figures. At the end of the first quarter last year, for example, in acute hospitals there was a €61 million problem. At the end of the first quarter this year, there was a €28 million problem. It is a problem, and I am describing it as such, but it is not of the scale of last year.
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