Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
I accept all of that but I have been asking this question since the budget. There was €1.5 billion of additional funding going into the health service. Every cent is needed. We will get to efficiencies in a moment because we are back again looking for more money for this year and we had targets set to achieve savings for the last three or four years. In relation to next year, as we start, because we are looking back for this year, we have to have a basic understanding of how the health service is funded. I have been asking a simple question: how much of that €1.5 billion is for existing levels of service and how much of it is new money for new measures? To date, that has not been answered. Somebody, obviously, has the answer and I do not know why it cannot be communicated.
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