Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011

12:20 pm

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To return to an issue which shook my faith and that of many Oireachtas Members and the public in the health Estimates process last year, the Oireachtas voted through a ring-fenced €35 million for mental health services which was effectively pinched and allocated to other areas of the health service. Will Mr. O'Brien explain how this occurred? How can the Oireachtas specifically pass measures and Ministers herald the fact that €35 million has been ring-fenced for mental health services, with significant detail provided on what it will result in, and then read on the front page of a national newspaper that a large part of it will not go anywhere near mental health services?

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