Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013

10:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

It sounds familiar in that it is a case that was made by others and found not to be correct. If it is genuinely a separate set of exercises in which they are involved, after they have fulfilled their contract with the health service, there is no legal prohibition on their having external employment. If that is what it is and can be shown as such, we do not have an issue. Clearly, we are waiting for the evidence.