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. Bernard Gloster:

There are various stages to the process. The figure related to the recovery pursuit went from €50 million down to €22 million. There were therefore obviously mechanisms already and various types of arbitration that led to that. The sum of €22 million is at various stages of being pursued. They will have to be pursued at different scales depending on the options available in the Chinese system. That is really as far as I can comment. It is not possible to pick out a timeline, for example, by saying that it is in the final stage and that it will be concluded in six months.