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 David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. My specific question, however, was on capital projects and the perception that they can take a lifetime from conception to delivery. It is almost like turning a big oil tanker around. There is a long wait for people to see delivery. We table parliamentary questions and the responses refer to a capital project being in a queue and that there is a business case at this stage or that stage. People get very frustrated because these are the ideas that Mr. Reid has just spoken about. All this is, obviously, dependent on funding as well. What I am trying to understand-----

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