Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept and would expect that, in some cases, Departments ask for a higher level of funding for ELS than might be required or granted but, in this case, the ELS provision the Department of Health asked for was three times what the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, eventually provided. We are talking about a difference of €1.3 billion. No other Department would have seen as great a divergence from what it asked for in terms of ELS provision.