Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
2:00 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
I would very much like it earlier than that. I cannot overstate how important it is that everybody adopts this, including the section 38 hospitals. I say that very deliberately. It is very important that everybody adopts this system because that is the way to track spending across everyone. It is not just for the purpose of reporting, but is to make sure we have collective procurement and do not have, for example, a deviation whereby one hospital uses one type of equipment that might cost €6,000 and everybody else uses a different one that costs €4,000. I cannot stand over that.
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