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
Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source
It was only in 2012-13 that the HSE began to address the issue in a serious manner. Has the HSE ever considered bulk buying with our neighbours in, say, Northern Ireland or the United Kingdom, or with other countries of the European Union? Mr. O'Brien stated that we do not have the buying power of other countries like the United Kingdom and Spain. Could we not associate ourselves with those countries in terms of bulk buying rather than trying to purchase as an island?
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