Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The issue is that we do not know. If we do not have all these variables and everything else to be able to do the measurements properly, do we really know where we are in respect of health spending? We bandy about a line - I am trying to be helpful – that the overall spend is whatever in proportion to whatever. However, the devil is in the detail regarding how the money is spent and where it is spent. If it is spent on private healthcare, it should not be included. Sláintecare is our agreed cross-party plan for healthcare. That is what we need to look at. If social care is included here but not in spends in other countries, how can we have anything that will match up to give us a measurement?