Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

We have oversight. The system went live on 1 July in the east, which accounts for approximately 40% of the HSE's statutory spend, excluding the voluntary organisations. While we have a lot of problems, it is now working well overall. While we lost some time on that, and there was the Fórsa dispute. With assistance from the Government, we expect to be able to claw back most of that. We intended to have 100% of the HSE statutory system on it by May 2025. We expect that it will be more like September 2025. We will catch up by changing how we will roll it out and with some additional investment.