Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
Health Service Reform: HSE
9:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
No. That overall budget is a cash float. We can only spend a certain amount of it each year. One could not frontload it in that way and then run out of money. Rather, year on year, equipment that one would otherwise be replacing would have its life extended to the point that it became unserviceable.