Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the position from the Minister that all new contracts should be Sláintecare contracts. That is a positive development.

I will go back to the Supplementary Estimates. I will bounce around a bit so I hope that is okay. On section 4.3(7), overseas treatment, there was a €74.1 million overseas treatment estimated spend and the current Estimates have a €32 million underspend. In the section on capital funds, the document states the Department has written to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to ask that funds be carried over to 2021. Is that also the case for the overseas treatment fund? It is a bullet point on the overseas treatment surplus of €32 million. Obviously, there will be a backlog and Brexit presents a number of challenges in that regard. Is that money now unavailable to us?