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

12:20 pm

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I would like to make a quick point. Deputy Sean Fleming made the astute observation that cost figures are not included in the report. It was something that we looked at. In effect, the costing of the activity and the models for that just were not strong enough.

We would have been in a situation of speculative figures which I did not feel comfortable with putting into the report, so we concentrated on the performance end of the thing.