Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011

10:30 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

In other words, our overall expenditure is €18 million below profile for the first quarter. That takes account of a €25 million underspend on the capital side and an overspend of €7 million on the revenue side. In this regard, however, I must caution that many of the challenges which relate to the saving targets set out on page 3 by their nature are timed to have their impact in the latter stages of the year. Some of those already are already having a positive impact but the great proportion of them are not scheduled to have had an impact in the first quarter.