Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 September 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will come in there, please, Chairman. During the Covid-19 period we had significant extra consultancy costs across a range of different consultancy houses that support the HSE.

They were for a range of activities we had to put in place in our response to Covid, a range of supports we had to put in place, a range of testing and tracing processes we had to put in place across the country and for our supports in terms of some of the advice for our vaccination programme. There was a range of initiative supports from a range, not just EY Ireland.