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. Se?n Flood:
Over the past few years we have to take Covid into account as that obviously had an impact. For example, when Covid hit in 2020 the private hospitals were effectively taken over by the State for three months. That meant we could not offer treatment for that period, so all the best laid plans went out the window.