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. Stephen Mulvany:
To be fair to the hospitals, the pieces we ask them to address are the administration piece, which they largely have addressed, and the consultant piece. The consultant piece is absolutely within their control and within ours. We are seeking to address the insurer piece nationally because it is not necessarily within the individual control of hospitals and we would certainly not seek to penalise them for that.