Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If, next week, the Department provides a Revised Estimate and a supplementary budget for the Department and the HSE this year of €1.1 billion, and we can accept that it may be a bit less or a bit more than that, then there is a shortfall that the HSE will have of €400 million that it will have to carry into next year. On an accrual basis, it has entered into the contracts and the invoices are there, but it is just not owed yet. That is what it means. It is owed in January sometime, but it was for services into and ascribed to the HSE this year. Is that not the case?