Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The Senator is quite correct. The guidance that I have given to the system and particularly the control methodology I have put in place is predominantly the same approach that was adopted in parts of the NHS. It has been more successful in some parts than others. Some parts of the NHS's services will have slipped back a bit because they were just not able to keep going. The telling factor for us will be that the control I have put in means that third-party providers cannot pay our staff any more than we would pay them. That is where you see the break point occurring.

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