Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion

Mr. David Moloney:

The structure of the budget changes year to year. This year, as we explained, we are still discussing the pressures on the health service with the Department of Health. In addition to the €806 million, it is important to emphasise the €1 billion non-core funding. We are unpacking what the pressures on the health service are and to what extent they are inflationary, related to budget management or a result of the post-pandemic legacy. There is a commitment to work with us on the data to back up a lot of that. It is the unexpected acceleration in spend in 2023 that has in some ways informed the budget outcome.

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