Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

It is not something on which I have a specific view at this stage. The key point is that hospital managers and CEOs have to manage - they are leaders. Leaders need followers, however, so they need to make sure their clinicians, non-clinical employees and all their staff are being brought with them. Therefore, yes, our consultant colleagues have a huge impact. In some cases, that may be problematic and the consultant body itself will tell us that. We are no different from any other part of the world in some of that. There will always be areas where clinicians may in some cases overstep the mark or where managers may not fully be doing what might be expected of them. It would be too simplistic to say it is an overall general concern, in fairness.

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