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 would need to provide services using consultants whose contracts permit them to operate in a private hospital. It is unique. Other private hospitals bear the name of public hospitals such as the Mater Private Hospital, but they are distinct and separate institutions operating distinctly from each other in separate ownership, which brings its own transparency. It is less than ideal to have this intermingled governance on the campus in question.