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:
To reflect the context of those people who are coming in, during the first quarter of this year we had 350,000 ED attendances, which is up from 345,000 the previous year and it is higher than the five-year average, which is 307,000 for that period. Therefore, the numbers are going up exponentially and that will affect and drive waiting times, and I have no doubt it may reflect some of the experience where people leave before their treatment is concluded.