Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 21 - Budget Management in Health Service Executive
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
12:40 pm
Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin:
My Department has formed a view that, at current rates of expenditure, the HSE will be somewhere of the order of €500 million over. However, they are working on the forecast. That is an estimate at this point. Looking at what we call the cash-burn rate, the amount of cash that is being spent, that is the figure that is available.