Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board
2:00 am
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
If 25% of TDs did not return their declarations of interest, we would be dragged over hot coals. If 25% of the consultants are not answering it, that points to the people who are probably benefiting from insourcing or other things like that. There is a body of work to do there. If consultants are not complying with their SIPO obligations, that is really serious - 25% is a big proportion for any hospital. I have no doubt that is not just Beaumont. I would say other hospitals are similar as well. Does the NTPF check whether consultants are compliant with their SIPO obligations?
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