Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-02-11
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

I will get the Deputy a written reply to the specific case she mentioned.
I will make two quick points on the ventilators. The Deputy and I, along with other Deputies in the Chamber, were very much involved in asking the HSE to do at the time whatever it took to get these ventilators in. We all remember the enormous pressure for PPE, ventilators and so forth. I have no doubt that there will be a review. In any such review we need to bear in mind the context in which that was done. Shortly after coming into office last June, I wrote to the HSE board and asked for an audit of the full amount because hundreds off millions of euro were spent in a time of emergency. I asked for an audit of that to answer exactly some of the questions the Deputy very reasonably asked. That work is ongoing. When we have the results of that audit, obviously, I will be very happy to share them.

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Sitting date: 2021-02-11