Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

No. In fact, what I was especially interested in was the very point that Deputy Connolly has made around progression with the programme of roll-out. We prepared a report in 2010 that looked at the progress made from 2001, when the programme of primary care centres began, to 2010. I wanted to do an update on that. We touch in the chapter on the issue of the method of delivery. I hope that it will be a starting point for the committee as it begins to look at primary care centres. Obviously, there are the cross-cutting or tangential issues of the method of delivery, and perhaps there are wider implications for the public sector vis-à-vis PPPs or the lease model.