Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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My apologies for interrupting the Secretary General. The Secretary General of the Department of Health appeared before this committee and I was advised that the decision on the elective hospital in Cork would be made in mid-October and this is on the public record. The Secretary General is now telling me that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not receive the documentation from the Department of Health until 27 September. In fact, I was misled and I had been advised earlier that the decision would be made at the end of July.