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:

We dealt with an aspect of that in response to an earlier question. The sum of €22.3 million is already down from just north of €50 million. The recovery of approximately €30 million has already taken place through different types of arbitration. Predominantly, the €22 million has been pursued through the various mechanisms that are available in the country of origin of the companies, which is the Chinese legal system. I am sure the Deputy will appreciate that it would not be helpful for us to indicate that we are pursuing anything less than the total amount but there would be a concern as to how much of all of that we would actually recover.