Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

I am not aware of that. I had not heard that as a specific measure but if I could answer the question, under about 48 headings and three main categories we set out in the service plan a much greater level of detail on how we would try to either reduce costs or limit cost growth where we had some technical areas. To try to bring back that €80 million on the operational services we have to grow the head count, but within the affordable levels; manage agency and overtime costs down as much as we can; and then operate within budget. In some cases that means not being able to respond to demand or looking for efficiencies that do not have an impact on activity.