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:
Yes, and as Deputy McDonald will be aware, it is the position of central Government that it intends to deliver pay-related savings of that order and, consequently, it would not be appropriate at this time for the HSE to begin examining other ways of reducing expenditure at that level because that would involve cuts in services, which is not what is intended.