Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
We will request that detail from the State Claims Agency because and we will supply it to the committee. The total figure, €1.2 billion, is in the nature of not quite an actuarial projection, but in that general vein and therefore it is subject to change. From the point at which a legal case is initiated, the State Claims Agency manages it. We manage it up to that point.
I have a slightly different concern from the one the Deputy has elaborated, which is that the overall effect of this process to some extent disconnects the point of care from the settlement.