Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 September 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE

9:30 am

Ms Anne O'Connor:

To support what the CEO said, we are very anxious to make this better, in a sense. We appreciate there has been a lot of hurt caused by this. Equally, we rely on all our staff to balance risk every day in terms of centres. All sides are doing what they can in assessing the risk on a daily basis. When it comes to visitors in general, we do not antigen test. We know people who are unvaccinated are still coming to our sites to visit. That is the reality, unfortunately. Again, sites are working with people visiting and with patients and their families to try to address that. To answer the Deputy's question, we are not antigen testing visitors.

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