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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