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
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
To return to the point I made about health, 740,000 people are now aged over 65 and within eight years, that will be 1 million people. At any one time, 50% of all the people occupying hospital beds are over the age of 65. We now face a huge logjam in the system unless we undertake long-term planning involving care in the community, yet we are doing nothing about that. Has Mr. Moloney's Department engaged with the Department of Health on that issue?
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