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 102 ventilators are part of 467 ventilators that came from those unestablished or new suppliers, and 365 of them went to India. The 102, a subset of the 467, were tested and, as we said, a lot of them failed. They came from a number of sources. Those problematic orders with the newly established suppliers were a mixture in that in some cases due diligence was done or, as the report states, there was no due diligence or there was a high-level risk assessment, if anything, so-----