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:

The HSE has submitted a draft plan to the Department. We are working to the contractually committed elements of that plan. They represent 75% of the money we have. It is not that we are not working to something and there is no clarity between the Department and the HSE on what we are working to. The real difference in getting to a preferred position of having a signed off and approved final capital plan is that it helps to know where the elements around that balance of 25% can move and at what pace. This year we are spending practically the full allocation of capital money but not over it on capital projects that provide value. That is not being prevented. The summer economic statement assisted with the arithmetic on the overall decisions.

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