Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Ms Anne O'Connor:

The concern was about the phasing. In that letter, I referenced the fact that the overall capital envelope, while we would always like to have more, was not the prime concern; the prime concern was the phasing of the funding available in 2019 and 2020 given the commitments we might have. As I said earlier, the concern for 2019 is that if we were to commence capital projects towards the end of this year, there would be a substantial cost in 2020. The purpose of the letter was to flag that concern but we have covered that there is a process in place now to look at the overall funding available.

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