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:

We already have significantly rationalised the cost of storing the PPE. We have further work to do, there is more clean-up to be done and that includes getting the unusable PPE stock out of storage and either disposing of it or putting it to an alternative use. In some cases, we can extend its shelf life. It is a cost we would prefer we did not have but that is where we are.