Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

In emergency departments, there is no charge and there is no differentiation. The admission is made on the based on a clinical decision as to who should come in, and that is very important. Emergency department consultants are not remunerated by insurance companies but are paid out of the public purse.