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:

I do not have the specific detail of that case, but I will be clear.

We are in the business of managing risks. When it came to procurement of ventilators, the biggest risk was that of not having sufficient ventilators. It is one thing to talk about what the criteria are today but back then, looking at what we potentially faced, we and every country in the world were seeking to secure ventilators. At times we had to order more in quantities-----