Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are significantly increasing resources for home care packages. In terms of developing service plans, we are also asking the HSE to make sure that it anticipates the full cost of opening beds, including staff, as well as the required capital expenditure. That is how one manages a health system to ensure that one spends the funding available as efficiently as one can. One cannot at the end of the year say that we must get more resources to take on more staff. We are budgeting for significantly more staff throughout the health system but we must operate within budgets, otherwise the health budgets will be out of control.

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