Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
2:00 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
We are advocating strongly for that. We are also advocating strongly for the review that the Department of housing is doing on what requires planning permission and what does not and what might be exempted. One thing we can see in the Department of Health, notwithstanding its very small capital budget and, as the Deputy pointed out, the very small increase in the capital budget relative to the rest of the budget and how much discretion we have to do new things within that, we do spend it and we spend it on time. We have a list of projects delivered on time and on budget. We spend our budget. Perhaps not every Department has the opportunity to do that as efficiently as our team. Mr. Tierney might like to give the Deputy more information.
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