Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
I think it is today that we are publishing the public service performance report which, among other things, shows some of the activity generated by the different Votes, including the Department of Health Vote. Obviously, we are concerned to secure value for money from the considerable investment that is being made in health services. We do monitor it on an ongoing basis. We spoke about the health budget oversight group previously. In doing that, we acknowledge, as the Chairman has done, the impact of Covid in recent times. We also acknowledge the impact of the increased population and so on. We certainly take every opportunity to try to drive better value for money in the health services but from our point of view, these are issues that are fundamentally a matter for the Department of Health and the HSE.