Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2023

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:

That is absolutely the risk. Again, the assessment of need is set out in the legislation this House passed, so it is a policy and a legislative matter. We sought a workaround to streamline it but that was held not to be legal, so we now have to do the assessment of need and, yes, it is consuming resources. As my colleague has indicated, we are seeking to keep that away from our staff resource by getting private contractors to do an element of that. We are focused, like the Deputy and those teams, on meeting need as opposed to just assessing it.

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