Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
There is a great deal of rigour in the HSE and between the HSE and the Department on the capital plan. The draft plan submitted is the plan to which we are working. As we said, 75% of the funding is contractually committed. It is proceeding. It is absolutely preferable to have a plan that is formally signed-off on, but we are working to a plan and there is a high degree of rigour. I do not want to give the impression that there is not. There is considerable rigour in public procurement. As Mr. Desmond said, we have not had an issue with overspends under the HSE capital plan in any recent year. It is tightly managed.
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