Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
In a wider context with that €18 billion figure, I received an answer from the Department of Health to a parliamentary question regarding the HSE's public procurement. What we found was shocking. Between 2020 and 2024, public procurement in the HSE has gone from more than €1 billion to more than €4 billion. Are there any checks and balances on that or how does the Department feel about this public expenditure and the significant increase? I saw it reported last Sunday in the Business Post that the rate of increase in spending this year was something like 91% and we are only halfway through the year. I want to see how the Department of public expenditure is managing the HSE's ballooning public procurement spend. Do we have any accountability as to where that goes?
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