Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
We have service arrangements for everything above €250,000. There are two parts to it. The first is part one of a service arrangement, which is about overall compliance, rules of engagement and so on. The second part is about the particular detail of the particular year, be it the amount of staff, money and so on. They are done quite often. The problem is there is too much of a gap between getting them started and getting them finished. It is one of the things that a multi-annual funded system would help us with. Even with the single annual funded system we have, we are often a bit slow at getting them out and organisations are very slow at agreeing to sign off on them.