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:

For the unit in question, depending on its allocation, it will depend on what the overall shortfall is for next year. However, the figure we were grappling with, from memory, was a cashflow figure of a share of €100 million for next year.

We will progress with our contractually committed projects. Those are moving ahead and have been all year. The question of how many other projects can advance and to what stage will be a product of the total available cash. It is wrong to say this is being delayed because of that. One could say they are all being delayed because there is not €100 million more or €300 million more.