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:

As the report states, that is the figure that was identified at that point in time, and it was never increased. The report is also clear that it was 15 March when the minutes of Professor Nolan's modelling group were available that we actually modelled the likely ICU need. That was the point at which the level of likely need of ventilators was pretty definitive, and that correlates fairly closely with both the last orders and when we started cancelling orders.