Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Section 39 Organisations: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

There has been. In 2015 and 2016 block grants for overall expenditure per annual financial statements to section 39 organisations did increase. Funding fell up until 2014 and increased in 2015 and 2016. These increases were not specifically to restore rates of pay. Funding would have been increased for volume issues and general cost increases. We have not been in a position to specifically fund any formalised-----