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:

In certain areas it is simply a question that entitlement drives the demand and the demand drives the cost. Such areas include primary care, the general medical services, GMS, scheme, budgetary issues and reimbursement. In other areas where persons are entitled to a service, there is a budget to be managed but there is also a point, I imagine, where it becomes challenging for the HSE to-----