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:
The Chairman will find no disagreement on that from the HSE, nor I suspect from my Department colleagues. We rate it as the most critical part of our actual capability to deliver a response to people as an alternative to other events in their lives. There is no dispute about it. We are concerned about the fact that we have not concluded, but there are very significant factors in doing it, and we are trying to do the right thing.