Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE
7:30 pm
Mr. Liam Woods:
I was not trying to identify just unexpected factors. The drivers are numbers of medical cards and the mix of medical cards by age category, gender and physical location, because there are variable rates for geographies to some extent. There are a number of drivers behind what causes the cost of schemes to grow. They are estimated at the start of the year and then the trend is observed and managed as the year progresses in terms of budgets and actuals.
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