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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It was said that individual hospitals which did not meet outpatient timelines could have a cut in funding as a penalty. I am not going to name individual hospitals but, if this gets worse and hospitals do not get this money but receive the penalty, how does Mr. O'Brien square those two things up? The hospitals lose funding as a result of an issue that is not their problem and yet they face a cut for not doing their job.