Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The majority, though not all, of the funding that health got during the pandemic has been kept because we realise the healthcare environment has changed because of the pandemic.

I know the Deputy wishes to come in again. I will make one last quick point with regard to shocks and how things can change. One thing that I acknowledge is different to what we thought 2023 would look like is that there has been an amount of healthcare need that may have been suppressed during the pandemic, and that has confronted our hospitals in a way we did not anticipate. We are seeing our hospitals, in particular, busier after the pandemic than I forecast would happen.