Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration
11:05 am
Ms Caroline Piggot:
No - in the overall scheme. We went back to the HSE in past years and got supplementary funding to allow our incomings and outgoings to meet. We have done that in the past, but currently we have a set budget figure for pension obligations that has been agreed with the HSE from 2012 onwards. We are within that budget figure, so to speak. One could say it is a surplus. That surplus is not retained in our books. It flows through to the bottom line so, in effect, it goes against patient care.