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

I thank the Minister. That is really useful to know because it makes a significant difference to people working in those services and to non-governmental organisations, NGOs, to be able to see exactly where money will be going. In a similar vein, many people and NGOs often raise with me the usefulness of multi-annual funding in the context of the surety it provides in respect of from where funding is coming, but large-scale projects such as Sláintecare or the development of an ICT system in the health service, for example, require commitments over several years. We have a particularly annualised system of budgeting but, as we move forward with considerable large-scale projects - and we can see the system definitely needs things like ICT upgrades and the implementation of Sláintecare - is that something on which the Minister's Department is working? I know there was resistance in the past to multi-annual funding.