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:
It does to the extent that we have a number of intersecting areas. Apart from the acute area, there is primary care and community care and in the latter there is a lack of capacity. Therefore, there is a great deal of pressure on the acute area. All of these have individual budgeted areas and all these budgeted areas are managed within those component areas. That brings a degree of complexity that we consider to be very challenging right across the health sector. Perhaps that is a factor compared with the other Departments the Deputy mentioned but, in fairness, I could not comment on those Departments.