Report into HSE ventilator spend recommends  guidelines on advance payments

The C&AG report follows the purchase of ventilators by the HSE at the height of the covid pandemic from overseas, many of which were never delivered.

Practical guidelines should be put in place for public bodies around advance payments, according to a new report from the Comptroller and Auditor General into the purchase by the HSE of ventilators during the covid-19 pandemic.

The report examines advance payments worth millions of euro to suppliers and sources in China for ventilators, many of which were never delivered.