Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive

2:00 pm

Mr. Michael Cullen:

No, it was ourselves, in our engagement with the internal auditor. The procurement policy, the summary of which is at the back of my statement, shows how the process works in our hospital, and how the oversight of our SMAT, supply, management and action team, works. No doubt there are flaws, which allowed what has allegedly happened to take place. There had been nothing previous in our history to suggest that this was happening. The process has been audited a number of times in both our statutory and our occasional internal audits, and nothing has come to our attention before.

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