Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed)
11:00 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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-----within our system to deal with something like the pandemic arising and that we had no preparation? As I have asked, is that not the object? Mr. Reid cannot give us a categoric figure but we know in some instances, we spent moreper capitathan many other countries. Should the object of our systems not be that we have the ability, capability and institutional capacity to deal with pandemics so that this does not happen?