Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Summer Economic Statement: Discussion

5:30 pm

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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What I do not accept is that the CEO of the health service warned the Minister that there was deliberate underfunding and then it happened. Now the Minister has sought to correct it. I am seeing forced wastage there because we knew from last year this was going to have to be done. It was going to have to be corrected. The Minister sought to correct it yesterday with the €1.5 billion and the €1.2 billion for ELS, but that leaves very little room for expansion or for new measures.