Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Bolger:

The first thing that is different is that we have held the funding back in respect of new developments funding. In terms of the bigger piece of the overall management of the budget, that is slightly outside my remit, if it is okay to say that. However, we are being very clear that we have set out a plan for 70,000 patients and we are not expecting to see a fall-off in activity with regard to the hospitals. What we have done this year in terms of the NTPF is that we are planning to continue activity into October, November and December whereas in the past activity would drop off in those months. From my perspective there are no plans to shut off activity in the scheduled care side.

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