Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister can tell me afterwards.

We know that the health overrun is mostly due to recruitment. It is suggested time and again that this was predictable and demand-led. The HSE was here before the health and budgetary committees and presented all of this to us. How come the Department has got the health budget so wrong? This health overrun is again not a minor amount of money. The Department basically underfunded health in last year's budget, which was something I made a point of saying to the Minister on budget day.

The second issue is that the Minister mentioned that there is a €1.5 billion increase in capital investment. The housing crisis is a huge crisis with massive implications for those in the middle of it. I have made the point before that it is man-made, it is not a natural disaster. It is because of the Minister's Government's policies that have underfunded social and affordable housing. Is it not the case that of the €1.5 billion only €200 million has been identified for housing or could the Minister tell me if he has revised those figures, and intends to increase the amount of additional capital going into housing in budget 2019?