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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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From a policy point of view, within the HSE, is the emphasis on having HSE ambulance services directly owned? Is that the direction of travel? Is there a move away from the private? I know that on social media there is a lot of rubbish that makes a comparison which is not like for like. Obviously, private services do not deal with critical incidents and so on, so we cannot compare like for like, but is the direction of travel in terms of the service to stay with the publicly owned HSE National Ambulance Service ambulances?