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:

Our strategy now is on-island, so there is more production and we have bought more from local producers. There is near-shore, in other words, EU manufacturers have stepped up, and then, we have put the far shore, that is, the Asia market and the Chinese, at the very end of a list where we would hope we would not have to go for the obvious reasons of time and distance and so on. There are efforts to be able to produce and buy closer to home.