Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery
11:10 am
Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source
Looking at some of the figures from the 2012 report, which is akin to being a million years ago in terms of where the health service is currently, we have an issue with Cork University Hospital, which was one of the lowest scoring of the major teaching hospitals. Its percentages were dragged down dramatically by, for example, the extraction of cataracts. Is it a case of there being a difficulty with people getting comfortable with the idea of moving to a different way of doing things?