Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to clarify this. What was agreed by Cabinet today is a supplementary budget for health of about €1 billion for this year. The budget relates to next year. The way it works is we have a budget in October, then a Revised Estimates Volume, REV, in December and there can be Supplementary Estimates but the Supplementary Estimates are for the existing year, not the following year. That is what the budget does.

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