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:
We share the frustration about the time it takes to get things done. We share that. There is a whole variety of issues involved here around procurement, which is set by directives transposed into Irish law, the planning system - which others know more about or even could do more about than I could - on how we plan and judicial reviews, objections to planning and so forth and then there are the challenges in the construction sector. Those are only getting worse. There is pressure now about getting competitive bids -----
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