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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: It is phenomenal to hear that the NTPF provided almost 500,000 treatments in the year alone. That is an incredible number. It is an incredible benefit to the people who are waiting on these waiting lists. When I think about consultants and the money they are earning, consultants deserve to be paid great amounts because they provide immense value. They should be compensated for incredible...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: I have a concern because out of the purchase orders that the board has published for quarter 1 of 2025 and quarter 2 of 2025, the figure was €2.82 million for quarter 1 and €2.821 million again for quarter 2. It just seems like it is almost like a direct debt to the hospitals. It does not seem like it is related to the volume of work that is being done. Are any related party...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Does Beaumont Hospital perform any related party checks on its insourcing? For example, there is a consultant who is also a shareholder of a company, and that company is benefiting from NTPF. Have any consultants signed a document confirming they have no conflicts of interest?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Are there consultants working in Beaumont that do these clinics on a Saturday where they could take a huge number of patients off their own waiting list and clear it down? Does that happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is what is about to start. We are looking at the accounts and financial statements from the past. We have to learn from the past. My understanding is that if someone is on a waiting list for more than three months or six months, they can be referred to the NTPF. There is a portal to do that. Are there consultants profiting from NTPF because they have people on a waiting list?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Mr. Sweeney can tell me.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: A Beaumont Hospital consultant on their public contract has his or her waiting list. Somebody who is on his or her waiting list in the public hospital can end up on his or her private waiting list in another private hospital, and that can be funded by the NTPF.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is perfect and I appreciate that clarity. What about from an insourcing perspective?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: On the related party checks, does the hospital check that a consultant on its books does not end up treating people under a different company's heading? Are there are related party checks? That is what I want to know.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: What compliance rate is there with those? Is there confirmation that every consultant has completed their obligations?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: So 25% of the consultants are ignoring their SIPO obligations?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is shocking.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: If 25% of TDs did not return their declarations of interest, we would be dragged over hot coals. If 25% of the consultants are not answering it, that points to the people who are probably benefiting from insourcing or other things like that. There is a body of work to do there. If consultants are not complying with their SIPO obligations, that is really serious - 25% is a big proportion...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Okay. When Ms Brady was in Drogheda, what was her experience?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: On the review, the review was carried out. Was a separate review done for Beaumont? It was said that the review that was carried out on the insourcing captured every hospital except Beaumont. Why would Beaumont be left out if it was known it was the one that had the problem?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Who made the decision to leave Beaumont out of a review of the entire insourcing system, given that it was the one the public knew had the problem with insourcing?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is awfully convenient, is it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: It will get a separate review now?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Okay. I am conscious of time. I apologise to the representatives from Beaumont Hospital. I left them out of my email list and I did not write to them to check whether the hospital was compliant with its purchase order obligations. Does it publish its purchase orders on its website?