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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Yes, I understand that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: What I am putting to the Minister is that the actual figure, the actual additional overspend if he wants to use that expression, is €1.8 billion. It is very hard to make sense then of the figures, particularly when we have only had an hour to go through the document, which we actually could not do. The Minister is putting this to me and is telling me to read it. I have tried to read...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I do understand the difference between that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Going back to the €600 million, is any of that money that was earmarked for the additional staff we were not able to hire? In 2022, it was anticipated that 10,000 staff would be hired and we might have reached approximately 5,500. We are still approximately 300 beds shy of the 1,200 beds that are funded. All of that money was allocated and of course it was not spent, so does that...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: So we used money that was provided for beds and staff for this year for other purposes-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: -----which I cannot see really in any of this.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I appreciate that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: That is additional.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: That is the additional Estimate. That is-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: That is my point, I am not confusing anything. That is the figure I came to a second ago, the €1.8 billion and not the €1.3 billion. The Minister's official has just said that the €600 million is in the €1.3 billion, which does not make sense to me.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Here is what I see. I see the €1.39 billion figure, I see the Minister say 85% of that is for Covid-19 expenditure and €190 million is from a contingency fund. Then there is a separate discussion about €600 million of additional spend for unforeseen events and I know what it is, it is pensions and all of those demands and so on. Then we talking about cash reserves and...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I want to take the Minister back to the Supplementary Estimates and to the total figure of €1.39 billion. Our job today is to ensure there is, at the very least, a basic and elementary level of scrutiny, oversight and accountability. For that to happen, we have to be satisfied as to the figures in two respects: what was originally allocated versus what will be allocated now and the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Yes, that is €697 million. The difference between €697 million and €1.878 billion is €1.18 billion, which is €968 million new Covid-19 measures, funded programmes, and then the €213 million which is made up of the Covid-19 recognition payments and the therapeutics. That is basically it, is it not?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Yes. The question then is, of that €697 million which was originally allocated, what was it allocated for? I went back over the Estimates and €200 million of that was allocated for the access to care fund and €497 million for Covid-19 programmes. We then need to work through now all of the different Covid-19 programmes and compare and contrast what was originally...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I was and I heard-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Some €697 million was budgeted for.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Why?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Hang on a second. How can we sign off on this? What the Minister said to Deputy Shortall earlier was that the total allocation for PPE is €118 million. That is part of that additional spend. The Minister said it in his opening statement. I have a very loose breakdown of that €697 million. A total of €200 million is for the access to care fund and €497 million...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Surely there would have been some breakdown. It is not possible for me to envisage we would provide €497 million - quite a precise figure rather than a rounded figure like €500 million - on the basis it came from somewhere but yet we cannot have the breakdown. Maybe I will move on to the access to care fund-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I get there needs to be agility and flexibility, but we are being asked to sign off on additional spend. We should have had the €697 million figure and been told what was originally allocated and what it was intended the money would be spent on and then told what the new revised allocation of €1.878 billion would be spent on. How much of the €1.878 billion will be...