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

12:40 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The reason I am concerned about the word "investigate" is, while we may have a common understanding, I would not want there to be headlines appearing in local newspapers saying, "Director General of HSE Investigates". This is not that space. I do not need to investigate whether the post was advertised because I know that it was. I am happy to provide the Chairman with sufficient information to enable him to be as satisfied about that as I am, but that is why I am just concerned about the way words that we use here are sometimes portrayed differently in the outside world.