Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023
9:30 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
Not yet. We start with making sure that people can, and understand how to, comply. We then help them to comply. Ultimately, it will become a performance issue if someone is repeatedly not complying after being given all the tools to do so. We do not find that to be the issue. Once we provide the contracts that people can comply with and provide them with some analysis and support, people generally want to, and will, do the right thing. However, if we reach a point where there are individuals who fail continually when they have no good reason to, that will become a performance issue and they can and will be sanctioned.