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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: It was not plucked out of the sky.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: To make it sound more accurate.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: Indeed and I am aware that Deputy O'Reilly has asked this question at two previous committee meetings and she still has not been given an answer.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: I will undertake to try to assist her in getting an answer. I do not have it here. I do not know where that figure came from but I will go back and ask the HSE to provide an answer to me and will copy the Deputy in on that answer.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: Deputy O'Reilly's question is very valid. She wants to know the origins of this figure, the basis for it and how it was calculated. Someone must have seen it as an achievable target, based on some sums. She wants to know what sums or calculations were done to generate this particular figure. I will try to get to the bottom of that for her. On the wider issue of trying to achieve...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: Yes, but it is a demand led service. Deputy O'Reilly said that she does not have the power to tell fortunes or see the future and nobody on the other side of the House has that power either. We cannot accurately predict how many people will present at accident and emergency departments or primary care facilities, how many people will require surgery and so on. We cannot predict what new...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: To what is the Deputy referring specifically in terms of responsible funding?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: It is not funded from corporation taxation. It is funded from general taxation. Corporation tax makes up about 18% of the overall tax take. Health requires a much greater spend and is funded from all tax receipts.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: That is a separate point. The council is not saying that the health service is being funded by corporation tax. It is saying that-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: Yes, it is saying that overruns are being masked by increases in corporation tax receipts. In other words, we have the ability to cover those overruns because of bonuses in corporation tax. The health service is not being funded by corporation tax per se. It is being funded by general taxation. The Deputy's question is about our reliance on corporation tax and whether we are over-reliant...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: It is not peculiar to the Department of Health.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: Corporation tax is part of the funding mechanism of the health service, but so is income tax, VAT and every other taxation head and subhead. One could argue every one of these is partially funding the overrun in health. The point is moot and it does not hold up to scrutiny.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: That is fine. It is a healthy attitude if the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council takes exception to anything I say. I have no problem with that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: I am unsure whether this over-and-back format is usual. Is it usual to have cross-examination? If Deputy O'Reilly wants to engage in that, I have no problem with it.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not want to be re-interpreted and I do not want words to be put into my mouth.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: I will answer specifically the question about the reliance on corporation tax to fund overruns. Many other taxation sources will fund overruns in health. That is the point I am making. It is not only corporation tax. My opinion on this matter is irrelevant because there are so many other tax heads contributing to the funding. Deputy O'Reilly asked about the Department approach to...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not want to disagree with the Deputy all day but there are several factors that cannot be predicted. These include the outcome of the negotiations of the current general practitioner contract and the associated cost. That is dependent on the outcome of the negotiations. There are negotiations with drug companies as well. There is a major cost in that area. Another factor is whether...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: We are holding the fort on our own.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: Did the Deputy not receive an answer to that at the last committee meeting?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy for her comments regarding the visit of the Minister, Deputy Harris, to the constituency and the investments there. Her support for these initiatives is very much appreciated. On winter planning, the Deputy asked the reason we need a winter plan given there is a winter, spring, summer and autumn every year, which is a fair point. Notwithstanding that comment, there is a...