Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Colm Desmond:
The HSE manages the budget it has for home care packages as best it can to meet the demand, but it certainly has a challenge with regard to the overall budget within which it must operate and the genuine entitlement of people to them. It is required to manage that as best it can throughout the year. If pressure begins to emerge it inevitably will manifest itself in the process described here.