Ms Louise McGirr:

The health budget oversight group includes officials from the Department of Health, the HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. We meet monthly. It has been in place for a number of years and it looks at the expenditure, what is happening, what measures are being taken to control expenditure, the rationale for overspends this year - that has been the big focus - and savings and efficiency measures.