Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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If I can make one last point, I agree the population has grown but so has the budget. The budget for health has grown way ahead of what the population was in 1957, for example. The population has doubled since then but the health budget has doubled as well, and trebled.