Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the Taoiseach
2:00 am
Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
Yes, but we have to say it is going to be done. Putting money to one side to enable us to do that is important. Healthcare costs will be the big one. Ireland's population is getting progressively older. Healthcare costs, combined with elderly care costs and pension costs, will be very significant in the coming decades. The Future Ireland Fund was meant as an opportunity to create sustainable funding to provide for all of that. We projected 5% current growth over the past five years, but we were ahead of this projection all the time because of the events that I mentioned.
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