Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is very difficult. There have been many problems managing that. We will ask and see if we can get the breakdown of that between claims by staff or claims by children in Oberstown. We will see what information emerges. The agency will know not to compromise its own defence when supplying information. It probably thinks I have overanalysed what it gave us already and might regret it. We will note and publish that. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 2344 B is correspondence from Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General of the Department of Health, dated 2 August 2019, providing information requested by the committee including summary of the control processes and compliance framework re private work by consultants in public hospitals Deputy Kelly will be interested in this because, as outlined on page 2, the percentage of work carried out by private consultants in the University of Limerick hospital group seems to be the highest. The Deputy raised an issue in that regard. We can see from the correspondence that the private work being carried out in that hospital is the highest of any of the groups. Perhaps Deputy Kelly has not had the opportunity to study that particular item.