Expert Group on Resource Allocation and Financing
Terms of Reference
The Minister has asked the Expert Group:
- to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the current resource allocation arrangements for health and personal social services;
- to recommend appropriate changes in these arrangements, which would support and incentivise the achievement of the core objectives of the health reform programme;
- in the light of its work, to take a view on the most appropriate financing mechanism for the Irish health service, and
- to base its examination and recommendations on the existing quantum of public funding for health.
Membership
Membership of Steering Group on Resource Allocation
Chair
Prof. Frances Ruane - Director, ESRI
Department of Health and Children
Laura McGarrigle - Principal Officer, DOHC
Emer Brady - Assistant Principal Officer, DOHC
HSE
Liam Woods - Director of Finance, HSE
Economists
Prof. Rowena Peechenino - Head, Dept. of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth
Prof. Charles Normand - Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Voluntary Hospitals
Ian Carter - CEO, St. James’s Hospital
Nuala Hunt - Board of Governors, Holles Street
Medical Consultants
Prof. Arnold Hill - Professor of Surgery at RCSI and Beaumont Hospital
Prof. Peter Kearney - Consultant Cardiologist, CUH
Dr. Colin Doherty - Consultant Neurologist, St. James’s Hospital
Non-acute Sector/Primary Care
Prof. Andrew Murphy - Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Non-Statutory Disability Sector
Brendan Broderick - CEO, Sisters of Charity, Moore Abbey
Public Sector
Manus O’Riordan - Head of Research, SIPTU
Private Sector
Derry Gray - Partner in charge of Consulting, BDO Simpson Xavier
Pat Lyons - Chief Executive, Bons Secours Group
