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 number was 328. That was what our own hospitals wrote back and said they would need if they were to go to the first level of surge capacity. They were not asked what the private hospitals would need. We were separately taking on all the private hospitals.