Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013

10:00 am

Mr. John Swords:

If I could offer something as well: we do not just look at what we do internally but also externally - how it happens in industry. As I have said, I do not know of any organisation of our size that is fully compliant, so there will always be a variance, but it is the extent of the variance that we are addressing. In looking at compliance and non-compliance, should I say, one looks at different trends that are within industry and ourselves and they are no different, but we are addressing them, and that, I think, is the proper course of action to take.

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