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:
I can certainly speak to the resourcing piece of that. Obviously, I just do not have any oversight of the operational piece at our remove. Some of those figures are worthy of examination but we do not have any capacity to do so. It would have to be the Department of Health and the HSE. In terms of the capacity constraints as such, I have spoken to the broad numbers, the additional investment. We have spoken to the increase in numbers that is far in advance of the population increase. We would feel that the capacity has increased and we would feel, notwithstanding the discussion we had earlier, a good discussion which we need to flesh out more, we would feel that as we look at euros per head of population in a relatively young country, we have a well-funded health service.
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