Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
We accept that there is a substantial difference and the cost is higher in the public sector. We only reimburse our public units up to a certain cap. If there are costs beyond that, we do not reimburse them. We are very mindful that if we are over-reimbursing in the public system, we are potentially taking resources from the private care system, where we could get more patients into beds. We are very mindful of the issue.
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