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.