Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

That €22.3 million is with, let us say, four entities, to put it simply. When we started pursuing refunds with those four entities, the figure was approximately €51 million. It is now down to the €22 million. We will continue pursuing that through the Chinese legal system. That is the process we are going through. The €8 million included an €800,000 settlement that was written off, and the bulk of it is for the 365 ventilators. Again, they were from new suppliers. The cost to us was €6.6 million. They were of no value to us but were donated successfully to five medical centres in India, where they have been in service since they were donated.