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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: How?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Where can the NTPF source beds from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Is it nearly an entity that helps fund the private hospitals? When we come down to it, is that what it really is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: We have created this extra slush fund for the private hospitals. That is the way I am looking at it. If we had looked after the HSE and paid it to ensure we had proper hospitals and consultants for a start, we would not need to fund the private hospitals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Do they get two salaries - a private one and a public one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: They have already been paid by the public hospital and now they are going to get paid by the private hospital as well through the NTPF.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: They take home their public salary. Do they get anything additional?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: I know from experience and from hearing from others that people do go to see private consultants in public hospitals. They pay the private consultant and then they are seen in the public hospital. We have to get down to the nitty-gritty of it and I do not know how we are going to do that. Everybody in this room needs to work on that. There have to be reports done on this to see where the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: This would have gone a long way towards improving public services. This money has been spent since - what year was mentioned by Ms Brady?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: It was 2004, so there has been €230 million every year since that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: It does not add up for me that the consultant has already been paid by Beaumont Hospital-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Are they not on a contract? They are on a contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: I beg to differ. I believe that you can see a consultant in a private clinic and they will refer you to Beaumont Hospital to see-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Our system is not working. People are on huge, long waiting lists for everything as far as I can see. They cannot see a consultant when they need to but they can do so if they go through the NTPF or go private. The system is broken. It is not working. Something needs to change.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: I have just one more question. The money spent in the NTPF went up to €234 million in 2024 from €62 million or €63 million in 2019. Why was there such a severe increase there? It seems like an awful increase in the income and expenditure in those years. Why would that be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: But if the NTPF is treating the patients, what are our hospitals doing? That is what I do not get. Why is there such an increase? Why are the hospitals not doing the work? That is what I do not get. The amount of income that has been spent under that fund is threefold what it was. I am just wondering why. How was it happening in our hospitals back in 2019, and in 2024 it is the NTPF...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: I am just trying to understand it. It just does not make sense that we have so many hospitals and we are building a huge new hospital that is costing a lot of money and then we are still spending this money on outsourcing. It just does not make sense, so I am just trying to get my ahead around that. Administration expenses within the NTPF were €12 million a year - is that correct?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: What would that entail, or what would that be for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Do the NTPF's board members get paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Cathy Bennett: Okay, and that is paid out of that amount, out of that money?