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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: In respect of the fleet, what is the number of ambulances under the auspices of the NAS?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: That is the figure for the ambulances as we all would know them. On what basis are they distributed nationally? Where would they be based predominantly? Are they allocated on the basis of hospital, CHO region or county?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: What is the breakdown of the age profile of those emergency ambulances?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: There is no ambulance in the fleet that is more than five years old. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Morton for that. My next question is for Mr. Mulvany. In terms of staffing cohorts, there was workforce review in June which set out a requirement for a net additional 1,317.5 whole-time equivalents by the middle of 2024. On the current trajectory, we are nowhere near reaching that. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: Sorry, but could Mr. Morton repeat that please?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: I am sorry to interrupt but is that a gross figure that Mr. Morton quoted?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: What were the corresponding figures in 2019 and 2020?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: Okay. Does Mr. Morton have an expected figure for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: The overall figure is around 3,000 then. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: Last year, for example, the figures I have indicate that 70 staff were added-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: There is a requirement for much greater improvement-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: I ask Mr. Mulvany to give me an update on the big debate we have all been having on ICU beds. We all became experts in the preferred number of ICU beds for a population of our size and it was broadly accepted that we were nowhere near the level that would be required when the coronavirus pandemic struck. If we were to face another similar pandemic, would we have enough ICU beds in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: Did Mr. Mulvany say €1.7 billion?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: That is a lot of money.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: In September 2019, before any of us had ever heard of Covid or corona viruses, the ICU bed numbers were 255. It is hard to believe that we have come through the past two and a half years, an additional €1.7 billion has been provided and we still have fewer than 300 ICU beds.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Matt Carthy: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)
Matt Carthy: Would it be fair to say that a proportion of that work would previously have been carried out in-house by the OPW?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)
Matt Carthy: I suggest we write to the OPW. Representatives of the organisation are scheduled to appear before the committee later this year. In advance of that, I suggest that we ask for a note on this contract, specifically whether it has carried out an examination to determine if restoring at least some of these types of work to in-house staff would have a cost benefit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is what I would have thought.