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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I would like to have the clarification now because I do not have representatives of the Government in front of me. We have asked Mr. Kinnane to come in and he is an official in the Department. Was there any dissent within the Department in respect of the figure that was agreed, namely, the €708 million? We know how this works. The officials deal with it and so on, and it is then...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I am not talking about the health Estimate.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It is not about the health Estimate. With respect, I am talking about the ELS provision. That is the subject matter of this discussion. The largest component of ELS in budget 2024 is health. It is absolutely acceptable to ask a question about it and Mr. Kinnane should have been prepared for one. It is a simple question and he does not have to answer in numbers or anything like that. To...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Does he know what rate health inflation is running at?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Let us with finish with this-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I would imagine so.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I agree 100%. There will be a Revised Estimate next week in respect of the health budget. We talked yesterday at a meeting of the finance committee about how, on an accrual basis, that may be as high as €1.5 billion if we are led to believe what is in the media and, on a cash basis, what is needed between now and the end of the year could be €1.1 billion. None of that is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Parts of it are going to be that. We know what the driver is.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: We will already be between €1 billion and €1.5 billion in debt starting off, unless there is a way of making sure that none of the patients who were treated this year present next year or if the inflation we have seen this year simply goes away. We are going to have more inflation next year. We all know this. How is all of this going to disappear? How do these magical...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I will not ask my next question until after we return from the suspension.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Secretary General and officials to the committee. I appreciate them coming before us to deal with issues in respect of health. While I am conscious that we are talking about percentages, existing levels of service, ELS, and, in some cases, billions, the real impacts of the decisions taken by Government just a couple of weeks ago are now being felt. They are being felt in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The ELS provision for last year was €796 million. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Would Mr. Moloney accept that a higher percentage of ELS funding was provided last year than will be provided next year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Moloney accept that, even when disability services, the ELS provision for which was €131 million this year, are included, a higher percentage of ELS funding was provided for health last year than will be provided this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Even though we have an aging population and more people, as a percentage, less is being provided for ELS next year than was provided last year.