Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the sanctions, if any, underway in relation to consultants known to have breached the private practice terms of their contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34750/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The 2008 consultants' contract includes new measures to strengthen the management, monitoring and control of public-private activity in hospitals with a view to ensuring that the level of consultant private practice within public hospitals does not exceed the permitted ratio. My Department has asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy on the detailed operational matters that he has raised.