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

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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The money paid out to the various section 38 and 39 organisations amounted to €5.7 billion in 2021. That is a huge slice of the HSE budget. There are more than 2,300 of these organisations and it is not physically possible to audit every one of them. They obviously have proper systems in place. In any one year, how many of the 2,300 organisations' accounts would the HSE go and review?