Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE

6:30 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

That is the position that has been outlined. The balance of the measures are essentially on the income side. I became deputy or acting chief executive officer of the HSE towards the end of August. At that point I indicated clearly and in the public domain that the HSE was on track for a deficit in the order of €500 million unless various corrective measures were taken. The measures we outlined on the expenditure side related to the €130 million that we have just discussed. Dr. McLoughlin has referred to a number of policy measures that are designed to improve the income side.