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

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

As has been placed on the record, and I wish to be very clear that I am not seeking to add to what the Minister has said, the Minister made it very clear that a list of 20 was developed and a decision was made to increase that number from 20 to 35 for the reasons the Secretary General has outlined.

All of the centres were drawn from the original list developed by the HSE.