Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2026

Public Accounts Committee

Hospital Insourcing Funding Arrangements: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Joe NevilleJoe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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That is timely because we had the quarter 1 review of the accounts from this perspective and we can see where we overshot in education, and obviously sightly here, and that was part of the national conversation. Just for the Mater hospital alone, there will be about a €50 million overspent. It is quite early in the year to have that figure. Is it the same element of spending that Mr. O'Hare feels the run rate will continue or was there one specific loss already in the quarter?