Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive

4:05 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Could that be an issue of wider application than the section 38 arrangements? Could it happen in some of the normal HSE public hospitals throughout the country where there are groups of consultants with private practice arrangements? We have no problem with that in that there is public health and private health in the country we live in. There is no issue with either once there are proper lines of demarcation and transparency.