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:

Overall, the fact that we are doing this exercise for a second time is progress. We are now moving into quarterly assessment, which is progress. While it is self-assessment, there is also an element of independent sampling as an insurance. Yes, the 13% is a concern. We are following it up although I do not have details as to where we have got to. We do not find it acceptable, as the Deputy does not. We will always have some level of non-completion but that level is higher than we would expect and higher than we want. We have assumed it is all non-compliant. Some of it might actually be compliant but we have had to assume it is non-compliant. We will chase it down.