Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Obviously, the Dáil approves the allocation to the Department of Health. We monitor against that allocation to quite a considerable level of detail, obviously, limited by the data available to us. In recent years there have been challenges due to Covid-19. There have been considerable shifts in terms of priorities and spend at the Department of Health. Prior to that, we would have argued for stronger financial management and a stronger financial management system within the HSE. There have been, in the past, considerable challenges. Part of that is also related to the nature of the health services themselves, many parts of which are demand led. For us it is about financial management and reporting. It is about fiscal discipline and management within the HSE, accepting the challenges of some of the parts of the business being demand led.
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