Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Equality Budgeting: Discussion

2:00 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I agree. On whether the health package will be delivered as a result of the overrun, of the additional measures which amount to just in excess of €200 million, €35 million is not going to the public sector but the private sector. It goes to private hospitals through the National Treatment Purchase Fund, which was an old sticking plaster and a favourite of a previous Government. What is Social Justice Ireland's view on the amount of the health budget that will go to the private sector?

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