Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011

1:40 pm

Mr. Liam Woods:

We have carried out such a review. We have looked at the differentials in cost and at the capacity to have a single payroll nationally. Before we talk about how the HSE payroll is delivered, the first objective is to have a single payroll running nationally. We would get value from that in terms of the numbers I have mentioned. There could be staffing amalgamations, etc. Further potential financial savings arise when one compares outsourced and insourced solutions.