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

5:50 pm

Photo of Michael McCarthyMichael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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The next issue of concern is consultants not signing forms for insurers and the difficulty this is causing. In one case, the HSE had not received €500,000 because a consultant in Galway had not signed the form for the insurers. There is approximately €15 million outstanding owing to the failure of consultants to sign forms. Has this been addressed? If not, how does Mr. O'Brien intend to address it?