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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: No. How it happened was-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: It is €118 million.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. That is the estimate for the total full-year spend on PPE. It is €118 million.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, that is right. We have shown the total amounts, which are the figures I have given the Deputy, and then we have subtracted the €697 million, which is what was in the budget, to give the net figure, which is the supplementary spend required, that is, the €1.181 billion.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: No. If I may explain, and I will round the figures up to make it easier for all of us, the amount provisioned for was about €700 million. The total amount that will be spent on Covid-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I hear the Deputy. The total amount that was provisioned for Covid was €700 million. The total amount that will actually be spent on Covid is about €1.9 billion.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: No, that is the total amount and, therefore, the Supplementary Estimate is the difference between the two, which is €1.2 billion.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: It is €118 million.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: It is on page 19 of the document the Deputy got.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Not far off the €118 million; a little less than €118 million. What the Deputy is looking for is the breakdown of the €697 million at the start of the year.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Do you have the breakdown of the €697 million, Mr. O'Grady?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Is that the recognition payment?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The figure is €189 million.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Approximately 189,000 or 190,000 people. Some people will get less so the total number who will receive some amount will be higher than that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy an exact estimate.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: What point?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Deputy, when it comes to the recognition payment, the HSE at the moment is asking private nursing homes and private providers, and some of the section 39s, to come back to them with a self-assessment.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: No, you have not been told that for months.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. As the Deputy will be aware now, the nursing homes, the section 39s, are now getting paid so they have the self-assessment. They are returning them. The money is transferring now, and more and more nursing homes are getting those payments.