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
Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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I welcome Mr. O'Brien and all his officials. I want to refer briefly to chapter 20 on the management of private patient income, which is a problem that has gone on for many years. It seems to be no different in 2014, and the Comptroller and Auditor General called it a routine business function. I will go to the Comptroller and Auditor General first. He looked at three hospitals - Cork, Galway and Tullamore.