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. Robert Morton:
It is not that we have ambulances standing idle. We have a sufficient amount of latent capacity. We would have to grow our fleet in the out years, but right now we probably have one of the better fleet profiles of most of our comparators around the globe. We are in a very good place. The HSE has invested a lot of money consistently over repeated years. The Department has been very supportive of our fleet replacement programme over a number of years. We are therefore in a really good place at the moment, and that has improved immensely since 2011, when our fleet was in a dreadful situation.