Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board
2:00 am
Mr. Seán Flood:
If the Deputy looks at our budget, our budget this year is €230 million, of which €215 million is care expenditure, so the increase has been down to the funding of patient treatments under both outsourcing and insourcing arrangements. I would point out, however, that commissioning was restarted, re-established, in mid-2017, and it takes time to build up the commissioning function. Basically, from our perspective, we think we have been very successful in treating large numbers of patients over that period. We have set out in the opening statement the figure of 1 million patients over the past six years, I think, who have received-----
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