Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I echo the point about what they were intending to do. It is completely understandable that it was interrupted because we have had a very difficult year. There is probably no organisation that has had a more difficult year than the HSE. The 2019 accounts, which are in the urgent category, look like those with the biggest level of non-compliance. That is likely to be a very strong feature of the accounts for this year, which we will look at next year, given that so much had to be bought very quickly. Would the Comptroller and Auditor General be looking, for example, for the risk analysis? I am aware that none of us saw this coming and the degree to which it has happened, and to be fair to Mr. Paul Reid he said at the time that there were going to be mistakes made. For example, at the weekend we saw that a cash payment was made to a supplier, Roqu Media, which is a company that did not have a background in the area. That is the kind of thing we are likely to see. Will the Comptroller and Auditor General be paying particular attention to the HSE, and will there be a different approach because of the year that was in it?