Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive

9:30 am

Ms Louise McGirr:

There were very strong criteria around the fact that people had no choice with regard to who they saw at the time of the pandemic, which was pre-vaccination. We prioritised our acute hospitals and staff working with those people who were the most exposed and at risk.

The other piece is that there has been a great number of claims about widening this to public sector workers more broadly, to prison officers and to those in the many public services where people were exposed. There had to be borders or some areas-----

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