Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed)

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I imagine that it has to balance out somewhere. However, my point is there is a lot of reprofiling of money here for this one particular fund alone. It suggests, as the Minister has acknowledged, that this centralised financial management system is more important than ever. It is really difficult to track. I will not even have time to go into PPE, which is even worse. It is mind-boggling to try to understand those paragraphs and to make sense of how all that works. Last week, the Minister told us that the total estimated cost was €118 million. The Revised Estimate was also €118 million, but now the projected estimate is €151 million. That information was not there last week. That is a new figure. It continues to show different figures and where the money comes from. From an accounting and presentation perspective, it seems like an absolute disaster and impossible for us to understand it.

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