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. David Moloney:

Those conversations are about to be had. We will discuss with our health colleagues the challenges in 2023 in the context of the €1 billion non-core allocation and their implications going forward. By providing this €1 billion non-core allocation in the budget, we have provided room to have that discussion because, at the moment, there is not a common understanding of the different elements of that. We accept that some elements relate to inflation, that some Covid-related costs are being carried forward and that some elements relate to budget management but these conversations will shed more light on those issues.