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:

As I said at the start of the meeting, I fully respect the credentials of all the examples the Chairman has given and that they have been relayed to him as specific experiences of people. Nobody wants to see these things happen. I agree with the Chairman regarding the staff of the National Ambulance Service. I meet them all regularly. They have been heroic. It is not just a paramedic response unit any more. The work they have done during Covid has made us all very proud and we are all anxious to address any issues that emerge.