Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
The target was to reduce it by 30% in quarter 4 versus quarter 1, to have it as real as possible to the current expenditure. As a segue into that, I required a 10% reduction in September, which was more or less achieved. I am told that I will not be disappointed at the end of quarter 4 in terms of the 30% target. In any event, that reduction is going to stay and continue. We will use consultancy in the future, there is no doubt about that, but we will use it in a very specific, defined way. What we are taking out is the dependency on it that developed to a level beyond what I consider to be acceptable.
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