Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 May 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Liam Woods:

I take the Deputy's general premise regarding the need for capacity. It is clearly beneficial to have additional capacity, particularly for the planned activity that needs to be done to address access to care. It is with that in mind that those dialogues are ongoing. That is built into the access to care plan and the resources available for that. We are in dialogue on that and we will use any space that can be made available through that process.