Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That brings me to my last question on this point. Is it not time we moved to multi-annual funding for health? I am Vice Chair of the housing committee. I have seen how when we have done multi-annual funding for housing for capital it has transformed the way we are able to deliver housing. It has given confidence to the sector. We now have 100,000 houses being constructed, which is a huge amount of public housing. Is it not time we did the same for health? Looking at that figure, an extra €6 billion, if the HSE had confidence in that over time, it would have been able to plan differently. This debate every year about the budget going up and down does not reflect the reality of the total amount of funding.