Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

No. When we look at the annual budgeting process - obviously there are various agreements in place in this Oireachtas to move to a longer-term planning horizon rather than an annual planning horizon for the health service - the way in which the simple cost of meeting the increased demand through demographic change is dealt with is an issue from our point of view. Then, of course, there is how one funds and plans for new service developments on the side of that. Often those things are competing with each other.

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