Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals
9:00 am
Mr. Paul Reid:
From my perspective, in the past six weeks the focus has been on financial predictability. What are the pressures on the overall capital plan restricting me and the Secretary General from publishing the plan? That is the question. Real issues have arisen. We had a discussion earlier around the demands on the national children's hospital and the particular demands on the HSE contribution to that. If the figure is €25 million, we are clear. If it is more for the following years, then it is something on which we need clarity soon. I expect that-----