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
7:30 pm
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
It is very difficult to calculate that. It depends exactly on what procedure was performed. In respect of each patient, there may be different consultants eligible to claim different amounts - an anaesthetist, pathology, the main treating consultant and so on - so it is an imponderable.