Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

Apologies - a number of issues were around those local arrangements and whether they were entirely appropriate in terms of the norms of people's attendance patterns or the total hours they were working. Often services were seeking to balance providing a service and managing patient risk with those. We have established a process to go around the country and identify and log all those practices. One of the big issues with this audit was that regarding a big chunk of what was identified, the fact was that they could not confirm whether they were appropriate or not so we are going around to identify that, log current practice, identify practice where we believe it needs to change-----