Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2023
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:
I have met with the team in CHO 7, including the voluntary partners there, one or two of the staff on the teams themselves and the parents. They are operating in very difficult circumstances. As Ms O'Neill said, we had sought to streamline the assessment of need process to make it more suitable for what people needed, but that fell in the High Court. There is an element of fact that a constrained resource is being asked to assess need when, obviously, our preference would be more to actually meet need.