Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Hang on a second. How can we sign off on this? What the Minister said to Deputy Shortall earlier was that the total allocation for PPE is €118 million. That is part of that additional spend. The Minister said it in his opening statement. I have a very loose breakdown of that €697 million. A total of €200 million is for the access to care fund and €497 million is for Covid programmes. Is the Minister telling me an allocation was not made with regard to that €497 million across all of the programmes, whether it is PPE, testing and tracing, vaccinations, access to care fund, acute hospital and community responses and so on? Is the Minister telling me the breakdown exists but that he has come here today without that breakdown as part of a Supplementary Estimate that involves that figure? Is that what the Minister is telling me?
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