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
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
If I could finish my sentence, we are talking about a different way of funding for the future that does not focus on those sorts of inputs, but focuses on outcomes.
It has been very clear that there is about 3,300 people at a cost of about €90,000 all in. That is all new development. Additional money for new drugs is all new development. The way in which we organise it is going to be different. The reason that we are doing that is the focus that we are discussing in the past where it is constantly a focus on the additional 0.5% or the additional ten people here or five people there that are going to be allocated to this programme or that have been perceived as the panacea to all things, instead of looking at the 130,000 people that already work in the health system and how they are deployed and how they are organised.
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