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. Stephen Mulvany:
Then we moved to the establishment of the HSE. We took legal advice. I was involved in this at the time. The advice was that, on balance, it was more appropriate to treat it as a trustee relationship and, therefore, the patient should get the interest, in other words, it should be given back.