3 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange for a person from the Office of the Comtroller and Auditor General to investigate the way that the VHI negotiate prices for various medical procedures with medical consultants and likewise the daily cost of beds; if he benchmarks medical charges paid for procedures in the republic against those paid by health insurers in Northern Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands; and the way it was possible that more than €1 million was paid to one consultant in 2010 from the VHI. [18077/11]

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3 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange for a person from the Office of the Comtroller and Auditor General to investigate the way that the VHI negotiate prices for various medical procedures with medical consultants and likewise the daily cost of beds; if he benchmarks medical charges paid for procedures in the republic against those paid by health insurers in Northern Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands; and the way it was possible that more than €1 million was paid to one consultant in 2010 from the VHI. [18077/11]

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