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. Colm Desmond:

That is the position. The chief executive of Children's Health Ireland explained the position at length at a recent committee hearing of the Joint Committee on Health. It was to reflect within the children's hospital the structure of the health service as it is at this point in time, with a very limited amount of private space within the overall hospital. If there is a change from the Sláintecare perspective and other work ongoing in the public versus private issue, that will take its course.