Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary)
1:20 pm
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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People are interested in this particularly in the context of health and the number of incidents that are happening within the health service whereby people are being denied proper healthcare. They want a take on how much is paid out and are asking whether, even in the context of the moratorium on the hiring of staff and the absence of safe staffing levels, we might be better off investing in staff and our hospitals to prevent claims being made at the other end and the State being held to account.