Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 September 2021
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE
9:30 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
May I reply to the Deputy, please? Of the number delivered, we received 1,046 ventilators, 581 from traditional suppliers and all of these are in use. The numbers that we believed we needed were based on best estimates at the time. Those numbers changed as information became available to us. We had, therefore, sufficient ventilators from our own suppliers. On the balance of 465 ventilators, as the CEO said, 365 have been donated and very well received.