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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)

Verona Murphy: How long has the HSE been doing that?

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)

Verona Murphy: Can Mr. Mulvany see an end to it? That is a huge number - 545 in Wexford alone.

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)

Verona Murphy: These are vulnerable people. A system was set up to keep them out of nursing homes because the understanding is people are better off at home, but the service cannot be delivered.

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)

Verona Murphy: Is there any methodology relating to critical skills or are home care support services left with the national workforce? Does the HSE not look outside?

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)

Verona Murphy: I am at a loss. I get it but I have been getting it every time I have asked the question for the past number of years and the situation is not improving. I speak to people who have left the service. They were not asked why or they have gone to private service, which is doing the same thing - supplying the service to the HSE - but they are being paid more.

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)

Verona Murphy: It does not seem like the HSE has a solution to the problem and if it does, it is not working.

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)

Verona Murphy: In regard to the National Ambulance Service, there has been a huge increase in population in Wexford alone, so I assume the CHO 5 area has had an increase. Can the committee have a note on how the HSE is catering for the increase in population through the NAS? Currently, in Wexford, 160 people with special needs are awaiting dental treatment under anaesthesia. Pre Covid, there were two...

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)

Verona Murphy: Will our guests please do so? This is very important. These are very vulnerable people. I am sure that at the level of our salaries, we have never had to wait to see a dentist. I cannot imagine what it is like for these people but they keep coming back with the same problem and I have not been able to get an answer to it. Mr. Mulvany was the chief financial officer prior to taking up...

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)

Verona Murphy: When Mr. Mulvany says "making progress", when did the HSE start that? According to anything I have read from the Comptroller and Auditor General, it is going the wrong way, not the right way.

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)

Verona Murphy: In that case, let me read out what the Comptroller and Auditor General wrote.

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)

Verona Murphy: I want an answer to the question I asked. How does it sit with Mr. Mulvany, as the former chief financial officer?

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)

Verona Murphy: In that case, the Comptroller and Auditor General is incorrect, given that is what was written.

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)

Verona Murphy: The note refers to 36,000 invoices and states the estimated total expenditure on invoices over €20,000 is in the order of €2.37 billion. That is 56% of the HSE's procurable spend in 2021.

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)

Verona Murphy: The Comptroller and Auditor General is of the view that the estimated rate of non-compliance may not accurately represent the scale of the underlying problem of non-compliant procurement for a number of reasons, and Mr. Mulvany has agreed those reasons already.

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)

Verona Murphy: To what extent is the HSE making progress?

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)

Verona Murphy: We will see a significant improvement in the next accounts, therefore.

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)

Verona Murphy: That brings me to the Covid personal protective equipment, PPE. It was just a disaster but there is one issue I do not understand. Why do we have so much hand sanitiser that is considered useless? Why is it useless? It contains alcohol. Does it go off?

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)

Verona Murphy: That is not what I asked Mr. Mulvany.

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)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate Mr. Mulvany's point. My question concerns how much obsolete PPE that we cannot use we are storing and how much it costs.

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)

Verona Murphy: Why does the HSE know that now but did not know it when it was purchasing the product? Is Mr. Mulvany saying it did not meet the technical specification?