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. Bernard Gloster:

I am certainly happy to say what I have said publicly previously since I came to this job. We are doing a huge amount to make that better.

I am certainly very committed to that and I know the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, are as well. I have no difficulty saying on public record that we have come up short for children with disabilities and that is something that would be to my regret as a health service professional and a former social care worker. We have come up short. We are very much improving, but it is going to take a long time to get there.