Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Watt is Secretary General in the Department of Health and he was in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform before he came to the Department of Health. I am sure he would agree that when memos are being prepared for Government and figures like €360 million are put into these, those figures do not fall from the sky but are based on something. They are obviously based on an analysis and that analysis must be somewhere there. Mr. Watt says that he does not have the information, which at the very least that information should be there. On what premise was that €360 million based? Is Mr. Watt aware of any documentation he has seen which would indicate where that €360 million figure would have come from?
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