Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health the number of retired Health Service Executive staff who are directors of limited companies that have consultancy contracts with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28939/11]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The HSE does not have a facility to determine whether consultancy companies with which it contracts have former HSE employees as directors. The Executive considers that, were it to seek such information in the course of a procurement process, this could be deemed prejudicial. The Executive has procedures in place to ensure that employees who avail of a redundancy or early retirement scheme which prohibits re-employment within the HSE or the wider Public Sector are not re-employed either as employees or on a contract for service basis. However this does not affect such persons' rights to establish or become an employee of a private company.