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:
Yes, the electives for Cork, Galway and Dublin that we are working on. On getting the business case, getting the insurance and getting the detailed planning, that has been reorganised in terms of the Department's new assistant secretary who joined the Department and is responsible mostly for capital now. He is driving that. He is trying to push through the different gates faster. The people in Department of Public Expenditure and Reform can explain how that works in more detail. There is a delay from the time that we can say something is a good idea, and there is a concept to build something to then develop the business case, go through the assurance process and so on before you actually get to the procurement. We are trying to accelerate all those stages so that once it is decided that something is a good idea and we go through the cost-benefit analysis and have a clear view of the benefits and costs, that we can then get to procurement as quickly as possible.
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