Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 May 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

The scale of the project does not mean that in some way they fall of the radar. There is an extra assurance process for projects over €100 million. They have to go through the external assurance process set out by Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform officials can explain how it works in more detail. The Government would have to sign off on it as well, because of the scale of the project. We have a list of projects set out in the plan. The HSE has published it. We, along with the HSE, then monitor the delivery of those plans. There are allocations this year for projects that started two years ago, ones that started last year and ones that are commencing this year. It is a multi-annual plan.

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