Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Roughly, based on the information available to me this morning and what we are drawing down today by way of masks to use in our hospitals, we probably have a supply for between seven years and nine years. They will become obsolete within two to three years. If you do the maths, you will conclude you are using five or six years-----