Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Has any of that €100 million come from other elements of budget 2021 not being implemented? I welcome that budget 2021 contains a commitment to increase acute bed capacity by 1,152 and to put in place an additional 66 ICU beds, 1,200 community and, I think, 1,600 additional staff but not all of that has been delivered. Can I take it that the commitment to capacity was baselined and that whatever funding is needed for the cyberattack will not come from those sources?