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

7:40 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The deficit figure of €500 million, which is a huge figure we are all very concerned about and which Deputy McDonald referred to earlier, has been in the public domain for some time now. Even in the report I have here, there is reference to the fact that the HSE expected, if things went unchecked, there would be a deficit of roughly that level later in the year. Am I correct in that?