Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

We have a very dated health service infrastructure throughout our State. That goes for our acute hospitals, mental health facilities, disability services and many of our community services. We have an available capital envelope that we utilise and prioritise on a multi-annual basis. Mental health services have certainly had prioritisation on it, but we have to make calls with a limited capital envelope on a multi-annual basis. The CHOs will prioritise based on the infrastructure that they have but the infrastructure in the health service is very dated.

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