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:

I would certainly hope it would be at a very early stage. I spoke with the Minister about it as recently as late last evening and he is very focused on it and committed to it, as is the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. There are, however, sensitivities. It was reported in the media in a radio interview this week that the HSE had made a specific offer and then withdrawn it, and that is not the case.