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. Seamus McCarthy:
It was under a temporary arrangement. The surge planning was looking forward over a longer period and therefore, if you like, the HSE was trying to gear up with its own equipment. It was not necessarily counting on having those available in the long term. I think that was the point, which was reasonable. We are certainly only talking about 48 in the ICUs and there were seven in ambulances.