Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion

Mr. Robert Watt:

I understand. It might not be that money is taken from a Department. In terms of the increase in spending over the last number of years, most of the increment in spend has been on health. The health budget continuously increases. In terms of 2020, the health budget is up 6% and the remaining spend is up by 3% or 3.5%. Spend for the Department of Justice and Equality is up, as is spend for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in terms of the affordable childcare scheme and spend for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. In cash and percentage terms the spends for housing and health have increased most. There is a differentiation between Government priorities in these areas, such that they received more of an increase than other areas.

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