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:

The Deputy's question first of all was about the report. In hindsight, as I agreed earlier, I would prefer if it was a cash figure as well, but it is pretty clear when someone says the full €73.5 million has been committed. I do not know and I certainly never heard from colleagues in the Department of Health or in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform that they felt misled.