Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance

1:30 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I want to discuss the health overrun. I am quite surprised the Minister did not mention this in his opening statement in light of the level of overrun at the moment and what is speculated. I want to focus on how we deal with this for 2019. We will use this for argument's sake but if there is a health overrun of €600 million or €500 million - it could be less or more - what percentage of that will be recurring as opposed to a one-off?