Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

No, we do not have an agreement with it. We of course talk to the association because it is helpful to collaborate where we can but our agreement in law is with each individual hospital. Each individual hospital, one must remember, has a different history and statute. For some of them, the Minister is the sole shareholder, while others have different configurations depending on the religious construct they came from. However, our actual technical legal agreement is with each individual hospital and we are absolutely satisfied there is no basis for a separate legal agreement for IFMS. There is no need for it.

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