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:
According to references in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, the first additional ventilators were ordered on 6 February. Work would have been ongoing before 11 March and in the middle of March the WHO declared Europe as the centre of the pandemic. Work had been done before that.