Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have just looked through the figures in the HSE's July performance report. I could be wrong but I cannot find a hospital in budget. Is that correct? I have looked through them all. Louth County Hospital had used its entire budget by the end of July. That was the highest with 67% spent by the end of June. No hospital is in budget. These are the questions I want to get a feel for: why is no hospital operating within its budget? Are they being given false budgets to start with? Are the figures built on sand at the beginning of the year or are hospitals not being managed correctly? Can anyone give me a sense of that because I have yet to find a hospital within budget at the end of July? I am open to correction.