Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion
4:00 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I do not need any encouragement to wake up. I am well aware of the capital needs of our country. I am also well aware of the difficulties that families are facing in regard to accessing our health services and the stress and anxiety families have faced across December and January. However, in any analysis of what we do to make progress, it is relevant to make the point that expenditure and investment and the number of people working in some sectors of our health service have never been higher. That is the point I am making.