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- 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.
- 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: Without prejudice to the individuals, this should be the process that we go through. When an issue like this arises, everybody should go through this. No physician is going to be struck off by the regulatory body on the back of a settlement, without admission of liability. We cannot take refuge in regulatory organisations or whatever. The HSE needs to do this.
- 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: Will Mr. Woods look at and come back to us about the introduction of a mandatory system of retraining or supervision to give peace of mind and to ensure that the mistakes of the past have been learned from? The State Claims Agency said it is not aware of any.
- 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 did before and will again next week. As we are here with the health service-----
- 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: Moving on to another point, I ask the Chairman to give me time between his interventions. An article was published some time ago that got some coverage about how 650 of our 4,500 consultants were not qualified as consultants. Is this true?
- 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: To refine the question, are we hiring people who do not have the specialist training and calling them consultants? Something I found really frightening was that the term "consultant" is not defined in the Medical Practitioners Act.
- 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 does not being on the specialist register mean? Have they studied?
- 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: Does registering mean more study or more exams?
- 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 paid the same?
- 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: There is the same salary regardless of whether one is on the specialist register.
- 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: Consequently, some have been around for a very long time and have not been qualified.