Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Clearly not. I suppose we can all make up our own minds then as to accountability. Referring to page 27 of the report, Mr. Mulvany, €24.5 million was advanced to three suppliers on the basis of a verbal contract. Emergency or no emergency, how was such a massive amount transferred and authorised by the HSE without a written contract?

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