Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion
Mr. Eoin Dormer:
The figures, as a proportion of national income, are for Government spending. The other point to make is that when the OECD looks at all of the different comparisons and then comes up with a narrative or conclusion, what it said in the 2022 report was that Ireland is a high spender on healthcare, especially bearing in mind that it has a young population. Taken in the round, the OECD formed that conclusion.