Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not an expert on this issue by any means but, as I understand it, there are people who are directly employed by the HSE and, separately, there are people who work for private companies, charities, voluntary hospitals and sections 38 and 39 agencies. The latter are not HSE employees. Those bodies are given money by the HSE on the basis of service level agreements and are supposed to provide those services within the budgets allocated to them. It may be the case that the bodies in Dublin mentioned by the Deputy decided to pay the arrears out of their allocations whereas, for whatever reason, the similar agencies in Galway and Roscommon decided not to do so. I do not know, but that is my best guess for why there is a disparity. However, this issue will be resolved through the LRC and its ongoing work. That is the best place for the issue to be resolved.

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