Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

We already had in place a winter plan. The latter is a contingency in itself, because we plan all year round for winter. On 22 December or, possibly, 21 of December, it was clear to me, as CEO, with the latest figures we were getting and, in particular, with the impact of the influenza virus increasing, that things were even worse than we had anticipated in our most pessimistic modelling. It was appropriate at that stage-----

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