Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion
Mr. Robert Watt:
No. There is €800 million and then there is separate non-core funding of about €1 billion. That will help to meet the costs for next year. That covers some costs which are included this year, which will be recurring for next year, but depending on how we can sweat some of those costs and how we can manage it, €500 million or €600 million or so of that fund can be used to deal with the costs. That is set out at this stage on a temporary once-off basis. It is not in the base. Obviously we have a challenge to try to sweat out those costs over time.
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