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:

Our specific primary focus in the Covid response was on ventilators, PPE and hand sanitiser, as the Deputy has just touched on. These are the items that we had to quarantine and not utilise stock. Inevitably, in the supplies we get throughout any year, we come across stock that is not up to standard. The normal commercial agreement we have is that it goes back to the vendor.