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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The second figure of 800-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: What percentage of consultants have contracts to work in the public sector?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Therefore, we are talking about in excess of 500 consultants who are working in one or more private hospitals as well as in public hospitals.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: It is a long working week. Where is there oversight of the hours worked?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Are there further questions from Deputy John Brassil on whether private hospitals engage with community services, social services and so on?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Once patients are gone from private hospitals, they are gone. I cannot see them interfacing much with community care services.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Private hospitals do not link with community care services, apart from GPs.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Fitzgerald was invited to comment honestly, if he was prepared to do so, in comparing the two systems.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Which hospital does not publish its accounts?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: There are two factors that must be borne in mind - the complexity of the work done in the public system and the fact that accountability processes in the public sector are not what they should be. I believe we all accept this. There were a couple of other questions from Deputy Joan Collins. The delegates have answered the queries about shareholders. It is information that is publicly...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: There is tax relief on insurance premiums.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: What does Mr. Fitzgerald mean by his biggest bill?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: What is it for?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: It covers all services.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: There are two more speakers, Deputies Pat Buckley and Louise O'Reilly.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The point has been made that the insurance industry has indicated that it will not fund further private hospitals.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Throughout the morning, we have been very conscious of the dearth of data for the witnesses' operations. We are seeking as far as possible to base our decision making on evidence and it is hard to do that when there is no comparative data between public and private. The witnesses have been requested to provide information on a number of different areas. It is entirely up to them as private...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claims made by companies for correlative adjustments for each of the years 2005 to 2016; the number of claims for correlative adjustments conceded by the Revenue Commissioners; the total value of the tax involved in those claims; if, in respect of the total number of claims made in these years, he will provide a breakdown by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of refunds arising from correlative adjustments made in 2016 and likely to be made in 2017. [2196/17]