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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I will call on the Deputy again at the end of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Briefly, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Three further members wish to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: We will move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That is a fair point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Is €104 million outstanding not an extraordinary amount of money irrespective of the time? It is money due to the State. What will an ordinary person at home who has paid his or her insurance premium say when he or she reads in the newspapers that €104 million is outstanding from the four private health insurers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I do not want to pick a fight, but are we saying the entire reason the €104 million is outstanding is due to the inefficiency of hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes, but it is €104 million-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To go back, lest the witnesses think the committee is pinning it on them, I fully subscribe to what Mr. Clancy just said. Consultants dilly-dally about doing the proper paperwork to the tune of €73 million. I still ask whether the four witnesses are telling us they do not store bills to play for time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: So that we can come back at our quarterly meeting in November the point is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not laying the blame anywhere. I want to see efficiencies whereby money is paid to the State so we can see the money coming to the health budget rather than lying somewhere in a vacuum. This is the point I am trying to make.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Some hospital managers have a different viewpoint.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I am glad we have had this discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: In the interest of balance I should put on record that the Department and the three private insurance companies, excluding the one which is new to the market, have agreed a process for 2012 which benefits the State to the tune of €125 million. I should make this clear to be fair to the insurers. However, to ordinary people the amount of money which remains uncollected sounds huge....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: They are expensive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I will come back but I want to bring in Deputies Conway and Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. O'Dwyer wish to reply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: What would be the impact on what is coming into the Exchequer?