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Third of HSE spend on PPE written off, PAC told
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More than a third of the over €900 million the HSE spent on personal protective equipment last year had to be written off because of the large quantities purchased and the high prices paid, the Comptroller and Auditor General has said.
Seamus McCarthy also told the Oireachtas Public Acounts Committee that "an alleged payroll fraud" at a HSE hospital has been referred to the gardaí.
Mr McCarthy said that the HSE spent much of the money on PPE early on in the pandemic "when demand internationally outstripped supply and prices were abnormally high".
At the end of 2020, two thirds of that stock remained in storage, he said. There is a cost of €310m, a write down of almost two thirds (63%), because the items were worth less at the year end than
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