Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 23903-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the governance framework that applies to expenditure under the treatment abroad scheme. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: April 2026
Updated: June 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the governance framework that applies to expenditure under the treatment abroad scheme, including whether the Public Spending Code formally applies to individual funding decisions and programme-level oversight; and to set out how her Department satisfies itself that expenditure under the Scheme meets the standards of regularity, propriety, and value for money required of public funds.
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