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:
The sanction was to get up to 1,900 ventilators at €73.5 million. It was obviously left to the HSE to figure out how to do that. As the report states and as mentioned in the CEO's opening statement, the only way at that time to get ventilators was to over order and pay in advance, because we were being gazumped continually.