Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 5 - Vote Budget Management
11:20 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
The budget that is set is the Estimate at the time and the Revised Estimate, which is the more definitive account, involves a certain amount of changes. This time around additional resources amounting to €50 million were allocated to the HSE to reflect the further review of medical card probity, as the Deputy will be aware. My Department, the Department of Health and the HSE are not happy about the variance that arises year on year between the outturn and the budget.