David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It looks like we may not sign off on the Supplementary Estimate today. That is the view of some members and I support it. We may need to meet again next week to discuss the Estimate because there are gaps in the information. The Minster referred to there being a lot of moving parts and mentioned that we do not have an integrated financial management system, which is, in some respects, leading to what might look like a situation whereby the figures are not adding up. It is obvious from everything we have heard that some expenditure was reprofiled. That is clear. We need to know exactly what was reprofiled because that is not clear from any of this. We need more information.

Going back to the access to care fund, we were told the €130 million will not come from the €1.8 billion of Covid expenditure but from the allocation for acute operations. Page 17 of the Estimates document breaks down the original €13.9 billion allocation for the HSE and shows the final allocation is now €14 billion. There is no mention anywhere in that of the access to care fund. I assume it is buried in there somewhere.