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
Ms Fiona Brady:
That is totally different from what we do. Let us say a public patient saw a consultant in a private hospital and needed other sub-specialisation that was only available in a particular hospital. For example, Beaumont Hospital specialises in neurology. Drogheda certainly did not have that. That is what could have happened. Level four hospitals are all tertiary referral centres for specialties that are just not available in level three hospitals.
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