Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion

5:30 pm

Photo of John CrownJohn Crown (Independent)
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What is the opportunity cost associated with the existence of HIQA, with money spent on large public relations departments and corporate spokespersons? Such money could be redeployed, at a time when we are trying to find out how we can save money on cancer drugs. The fact that what we will spend in one year on cancer drugs the Government will blithely spend in three weeks on bailing out the banking sector indicates that our priorities are wrong.