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- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is possible, if not likely, or likely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is all for now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: I will stay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: I will pick up on one of the threads of the discussion, namely, deficits and insurance companies. I assume there is no process afoot to recover the loss. The witnesses stated they could not quantify the absolute loss or the amount that must be written off until such a time as they engage in a process. Has a process been commenced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: When will that be done?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: What is the Department's view on the issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: I pay for voluntary health insurance. In the few times I have attended hospital, I have been asked whether I have health insurance before I see anybody. Is it not clear that somebody is in hospital in a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Are people saying that? Is that what is happening? Are patients saying they are there as public patients and that their health insurance company should not be charged?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is that directly linked to the loss?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: In terms of the amount of money, can Mr. Breslin directly correlate the drop off to that amount of money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: The likelihood is then that we are in a legal grey area and we will probably not get any money back.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Are they acting en bloc or is insurance company A better than insurance company B, or is insurance company C more reasonable?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Would Mr. Breslin suggest there is cartelism?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: We might consider having them in, if they were prepared to come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: For clarification, everybody who pays his or her tax is entitled to free treatment. What has private insurance got to do with the taxpayer arriving who has paid his or her tax?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: That is no problem. I think it is something we could return to because I would suggest that there is a level of opportunism here by the insurance companies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Maybe it is the HSE which is being opportunistic.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Mr. Breslin might give us an update when a decision is made on what to do and let us know how that is going. I raised this question when we were dealing with the cervical issue but I do not recall getting an answer. The State Claims Agency told us that 50% of claims to do with the HSE are settled without an admission of liability. I asked what processes existed for retraining for, or...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: That word was used the last time I asked the question. I was told "support" was available. Mr. Woods said this could happen, this might be identified and that this would be available and there would be support. Is it not prudent for us, as a State, to have a mandatory process? I accept one size does not fit all. Cases are often settled without an admission of liability and that may be...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: But, there is not.