Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023
9:30 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
To be fair, I would not say that there is a correlation solely between procurement and the use of the springs in the hospital. There were much bigger breakdowns than just in procurement. One of the complaints we get from the section 38 or 39 agencies that we fund is that our service-level agreement documentation is too cumbersome for them. We are clear, in that we expect them to comply with the same legislative standards with which we have to comply. As Mr. Mulvany stated, we try to help and enable them to comply. Ultimately, we have to call them out when that does not happen.
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