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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There remains a high demand for hand sanitiser and so on because Covid is still here and we are still vaccinating people. Apparently, the incidence of the virus is on the rise again, so there is a need for hand sanitiser in workplaces, schools and other buildings. Why would we throw it out or dispose of it? Is there not a question mark over the best-before date? I saw a figure suggesting €38 million had been spent on hand sanitiser.