Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The witnesses can come back to me with it. Let me outline the message. We have the Minister trumpeting budget increases, but in real terms there has not been an increase in the level of care provided because we have reached the summer and vulnerable persons in certain CHO areas - I know that this is the experience nationwide from talking to colleagues across parties - are being refused home care packages.