Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015

9:00 am

Mr. Greg Dempsey:

It will be undertaken by the Department. We have not actually started yet. In the next couple of months we will scope it out. At this stage, we are not sure of its exact form. It will follow DPER guidelines but we will be consulting. The aim is to understand the drivers behind the differential pricing between public and private. I think our expectation is that we would get it completed in 2017.