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
Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
I understand it takes time, but it is taking too much time.
I wish to tease out some of the pieces on the employees acting as company directors and some of those numbers. The report states that 83 current or former health service staff were employees acting as directors in 148 companies involved in outsourcing. Of those, 58 were HSE and 25 were section 38 employees. A breakdown of the HSE staff was provided: 35 former employees and 23 current employees. However, the same has not been done for the section 38 employees. Does Mr. Gloster have this breakdown? It would be important to know how many current employees in section 38 hospitals are directors in these companies.
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