Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I do not have the figures by care group, but I will be certainly be happy to provide them. Generally, compliance with signing service arrangements and agreements is far too slow. Agreements often do not get signed until the middle of or late in the year in which they apply. It is quite frankly a bit ridiculous not to have an agreement about a year until late in the year. We have made some progress on that but we have a long way to go in improving the oversight of those funded agencies. The simple reality is that the only leverage we have when people do not sign their agreements is to control or cease their funding, and we cannot do that because live services are being provided.
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