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

Mr. Paul Reid:

From our perspective, we have the funds for those areas for this year. We are focused on doing all of that. We have been impacted in terms of some of the services and capacity enhancements we wanted to make, but we have to operate within the 2021 service plan. There is no rolling over of budgets. It is a process in which we will engage again under the Estimates process in 2022. Ultimately, from a HSE perspective, we are very committed to ensuring that the additional funding is committed to the areas referred to by the Deputy.