Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting

9:30 am

Mr. Derek Tierney:

In any given year, and in recent years in particular, approximately 60% of our annual allocation is prioritised for contractual commitments, those being where projects are under way.

Then we get into the next tranche which is around regulatory compliant location safety, then infrastructure risk and fleet and equipment upgrade, followed by climate action, which gives us approximately 20 to 25% on an annual basis to progress new initiatives. Bed capacity is our focus both in acute and community hospitals. It has to be, but it is not the only focus.