Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 21 - Budget Management in Health Service Executive
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
11:40 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
If a person has an enforceable contractual entitlement, it will be necessary to consider whether there is any basis on which it can be overcome. If there is no such basis, logically, the individual will retain the benefit of the contractual entitlement. We do not yet have any basis on which to reach a conclusion on it because we have not seen the evidence.