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:
I believe I understand where the Deputy is going but the deprivation index is but one part of the equation. One will find that the list of 20, as mentioned by the Deputy, does not contain the top 20 according to the deprivation index. One will find that they are the 20 sites identified as most likely to be most effectively delivered via the stimulus package through the PPP. It is not because they were the top 20 according to the deprivation index. There has been a lot of debate and there may be some confusion about this, but the centres are not ordered from one to 20 according to the deprivation index either by the one-times multiplier or the three-times multiplier.