Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE

6:40 pm

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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I do not accept that it is. The policy in terms of the decision as to what the criteria might be is clearly a policy matter. That is the kick for the Minister but the application of the criteria, which I am trying to establish here, would be with the involvement of or led out by the HSE and the Department. I am trying to establish the role of the HSE in compiling the list of 20 and then the longer list of 35 with the additional 15 sites.