Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

In terms of the review, there is always a dial that one has to turn which balances risk and cost, as has been seen in previous models. The Comptroller and Auditor General highlighted the various models we have. We have seen, in our review in the past, that the operating lease was the most cost-effective. We will look at that again by the first half of next year. There is funding for 30 primary care centres in our capital plan and we still expect those to progress, as they should. Where we have our own sites and are extending an existing site, as I mentioned earlier, the best model is our own capital plan and infrastructure. It is about balancing the risk of the investment.

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