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

Mr. Jim Breslin:

There is a substantial increase in this year's budget for the State Claims Agency, even after that adjustment. One thing we did as we got to the end of the year was look at how the State Claims Agency turned out at the end of the year. In doing that, it turned out a little better. We still boosted the figure by €40 million coming into this year. Actually, in the HSE year-to-date budget reporting - touch wood - we are not showing a deficit on the State Claims Agency. That is not to say that something sharp will not happen later.

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