Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion
2:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
I accept that, and I saw what Mr. Gloster referred to. I submitted a parliamentary question seeking a breakdown of the information on all these companies, including how many exist and what funding has been given to them over the last number of years. I shared that information with the HSE, but I did not get any response other than being sent somewhere else, which made no sense whatsoever. Can this committee be furnished with that information? We now know there are more than 900 companies and 50 top companies. I think it is not unreasonable for us to ask for a breakdown of those top 50 companies, to include how much they have got, broken down by year and per hospital, and the numbers of current and former HSE staff members who were aware of the work in all those companies. For me and other members of the committee to hope to be satisfied in relation to value for money, can that information be provided?
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