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:
One must also take into consideration that we are here essentially to deliver service for patient care - that is first and foremost - and value along with that and then compliance. Now, we want to be compliant. We want to always be compliant, but although people are not new to the system, because moratoriums have actually put a stop to new people coming in, there has been a drift of people out of the system. In my own division I have lost 100 people since 2010. That is a considerable amount of expertise to lose. So in addressing the areas of procurement, we would obviously like more numbers to get there faster.
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