Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases

Mr. Paul Reid:

We are still very focused on procuring PPE for the rest of the year and through to March 2021. We have secured orders that would see us through to March next year. Some 59 million items arrived this week and 10 million items will arrive next week. The distribution of those will continue as before, primarily large supports to nursing homes provided by the State. That will continue.

We have received good reductions in price in the area of procurement based on what has happened in the market.

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