Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Summer Economic Statement: Discussion

3:30 pm

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

On the projected overrun in the Department of Health, how will that impact on a supplementary budget this year for the Department? How will it impact on the fiscal space or budgetary stance the Minister has outlined with discretionary amounts of €800 million? Has he identified, with his colleague in the Department of Health, if any of that spending was what might be deemed wasteful or was it just that there was inadequate provision for the health budget given the level of demand?

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