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

6:50 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The deprivation index has been used in two different ways in this process - in its pure form as a one-times multiplier and then in the manner of a three-times multiplier. The HSE was simply involved in ordering the centres in relation to those two categories and providing that list.