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

Photo of Cormac DevlinCormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That worries me more now that Mr. Morton said that the ambulance base in Loughlinstown will be relocated. That will leave the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area with one service whereas the rest of Dublin enjoys two services. As I do not have enough time to delve into it today, I ask him to send on a note on the future plans for the NAS in the Dublin region, specifically the south-east area.

I refer to an issue relating to the 2021 statement that also relates the 2020 financial statement, which is the storage of protective suits. The figure of €1.25 million spent on the storage of those suits jumped out at me. I understand from reading the documents that some of these suits will not even be used. Why was the HSE not able to store those itself? Why would it incur such a cost?

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