Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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That is the difference. We now have a scenario where people are going abroad who, if we had been operating the NTPF in a correct way, would not be. That is what I am saying. I am now convinced we are not getting value for money because of the fact there are facilities here in the South. People are going to Northern Ireland for a whole lot of treatment. I have no problem with that but people are going to the UK, France, Spain and Portugal, and a lot of the treatment they are getting is readily available in Ireland. The structure of the NTPF and the decision-making process-----