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
4:45 pm
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
I cannot guarantee they will be compliant. I can guarantee that if they are not compliant they will be in the process of having various actions taken to bring them into compliance. I must caution ourselves and the members that some of these entities will be in a position in which they have legally binding contracts with individuals that cannot be arbitrarily broken. The process of coming into compliance may not be straightforward for them.