Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
In the first instance I will answer and Mr. O’Grady can come in then. We have bought a substantial amount of masks, in particular, from indigenous suppliers but we had an element of indigenous supply prior to Covid-19. The issue was that the volume of PPE required pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 was incomparable. The Chairman is completely right in that this is one of the lessons to be learned and it is being learned. There is a European-wide agency looking at future preparedness.
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