Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive
2:00 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
For the devices or sensors, per quarter we were being billed about €900,000, approximately €2,500 per pack. There were six in a pack. The estimate we have given is based on the best estimate people could make. Each of them lasted about three days on the patient. If you look at the wards they were in, they were only in certain wards in certain hospitals, as Mr. McCallion said, for respiratory patients. They allowed for remote monitoring, which was very important during Covid. Unfortunately, the local process to receive them in stock did not work appropriately. They were delivered directly to wards. The central process, as the CEO said, was paying an invoice without that basic check to see-----
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