Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023

9:30 am

Photo of Marc Ó CathasaighMarc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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I will move on to the issue of non-compliant procurement. It is a very substantial amount. The exercise that was carried out indicates about 7%. Only about half of the procurement spent was analysed and it came up with this 7% figure. I do not know whether that adequately captures the non-compliant procurement.

Is there any local aspect to this? Are there places where that level of non-compliant procurement is worse than in others? I know we are inheriting a regional health board model. Are we seeing that translating into non-compliant spending?