Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Sláintecare Reforms
Mr. Robert Watt:
It is not the Government per se; it is the system - ourselves and the HSE - that needs to do better in terms of trying to understand the factors that are driving up cost increases. We had an inflationary environment this year that is very different from what we had before. We also had much stronger demand than anticipated. That is due to two factors. It is due to the long-running impact relating to demography, particularly over-75s, which has been coming for a long time, and also-----
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