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 Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let us refer to someone going for maternity services. Forget about disease and seriousness of case. Let us say people are going in for routine examinations, some of whom are private and some of whom are public patients. I would have thought that would be very straightforward to distinguish. Any control system worth its salt should be able to differentiate between them.

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