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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Mr. Gloster. I wish him well in his new role. It is not only the committee but also the country that would wish him well. It is a big task and we all want to see the reforms necessary. As the Cathaoirleach has said, there are many challenges, not just in the community care but right across the board, as Mr. Gloster will be very well aware. I also welcome the officials from...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: What is the Department of Health's perspective from its oversight and reviews of the pandemic, particularly in respect of the purchasing of necessary and vital equipment?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Will the witnesses from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform comment?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I refer to the period of decision-making on the purchase of ventilators. Mr. Gloster indicated that this started in early March 2020 and concluded at the end of April. Was early March not a bit late to start assessing the need for ventilators, given what we knew, including the issues that had arisen in January in Italy and elsewhere around the globe? I accept that Mr. Gloster was not in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Of the 3,500 ventilators that were ordered, reference was made to €20.5 million being spent on purchases from existing suppliers and €81 million on purchases from new suppliers. Mr. Gloster mentioned China in his opening remarks. Were all the ventilators from new providers sourced from China or were some sourced from elsewhere? There are legal proceedings ongoing in this...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: The donation of 365 ventilators to India is very welcome and was the right thing to do because the authorities there had a far worse situation on their hands than we did. To clarify, is Mr. Mulvany saying that approximately 600 machines were unusable?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Those are the machines that are the subject of the legal proceedings.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: What is the life span of a ventilator? I ask Mr. Gloster to excuse my ignorance on the topic. How long can the ventilators in storage be held onto for use in the future?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Are they well stored? I hope the committee does not have to deal with a situation at a future date whereby we discover they are in some sort of shed out in west Dublin or something like that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: That is fine. The advance payment issue was referenced by the Comptroller and Auditor General in his opening remarks. A weekly expenditure report was provided by the HSE to the Department of Health but the advance payments were not included in it. I have a question regarding the Department's perspective on this. It is a complete blindsiding of the Department when the figures that were...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: From the HSE's perspective, what was the rationale for excluding the advance payments from the flash reports, as I think the Department refers to them?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I have less than a minute left. Could I just turn to the NTPF please? Mr. Flood is very welcome. Given the volume of waiting lists, he might furnish a note on the targets, if he does not have it to hand. In terms of the number of people applying for NTPF funding and availing of it, he might just furnish the committee with the last four years of the uptake of the NTPF service and also the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: What I am trying to get at is whether these are on target, in terms of the NTPF's set targets. Has the fund exceeded them, met them, or are the numbers less than the targets?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I mean specifically for last year.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I am out of time. Did the NTPF meet its targets or not?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Was the NTPF far off?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Mr. Flood might send a note please on those figures. I thank him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Ms MacEvilly and her colleagues. It is good to engage again with them on this very important topic. Obviously, it is an issue that we have all engaged with over the past two years at least. I want to touch on the issue of arrears first, particularly in light of the commissioner's opening remarks. He acknowledged the emergency electricity credit and the benefit it has had, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Trant spoke about how there was an influx of calls. To me, it would be commonplace, where the smart tariffs and meters were being advertised at such a rate, for people to be calling in and looking to switch themselves, whereas heretofore it would have been the energy companies ringing their customers to switch over. I do not expect the witnesses to have exact data on the volume of...