Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I do, yes. It is a rules-based system and people cannot go around it. I think it will cause terror for a few months because people are used to doing things locally and quickly. It does not mean they are bad people. However, the scale of the spend of the Irish health service is such that if we do not have top to bottom line of sight, we do not have control.