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. Tony O'Brien:

There has not been a strategic decision to do that. We have the beds we have. There has been a reduction in our number of beds by virtue of the need to achieve regulatory compliance. As I was explaining to Deputy McDonald earlier, this process often results in a reduction of approximately one third in the number of beds in a given facility.