Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The vast majority of Departments stay inside their expenditure ceilings. Of course, the Department of Health has had ongoing difficulties in doing that. In some years, we made progress in reducing the level of supplementary funding that was needed. In other years, it did not go as I would have wanted. Last year is an example of that. I assure the Deputy that I take my role as seriously as he expects. I know that if I did not provide supplementary funding to certain Departments, the Deputy and other Members would probably be the first people to criticise me.

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