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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Look at page 19 of the document.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: What is that for?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Hang on a second. Some €200 million is allocated. Is that not right?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: The €1.878 billion is made up of all of those components, including the access to care fund. This is what the Department envisages will be spent across all of these programmes, unless we are saying we will spend more again. What the Department provided to us today is €6.9 million for an access to care fund, where in the budget, there was a provision of €200 million. Is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: How can it be higher? The final revised allocation in front of me is €1.878 billion. It is made up of all of these components, part of which is the access to care fund of €6.9 million. If Mr. O'Grady is telling me the latter figure may be higher, the revised allocation will be higher than €1.878 billion. Where will that money come from?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: That makes no sense in how the Department is presenting this today. The fact that I even have to do this frustrates me. The Department is presenting figures to us of €118 million for PPE, €402 million for testing and tracing, €465.8 million for vaccinations, €6.9 million for the access to care fund, €396 million for Covid acute hospital responses, and...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: How can we only spend €130 million when it is €200 million and when we have a waiting list crisis, the Chair talking about the National Ambulance Service, we have people waiting far too long in hospitals, we have some patients waiting more than 24 hours, and we have all of the challenges and the pressures? The Minister announced, with great fanfare, €200 million of an...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Is that separate from the access to care fund?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: What the Minister is telling me is the access to care fund was really a combination of funding that was already announced as part of the 10,000 staffing.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: That is what the Minister just said.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I just need to come back to a final point to the Minister's official. The smaller Covid allocation figure for 2022 of €697 million was what was budgeted for. We are agreeing on that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Of that €697 million, €200 million was budgeted for the access to care fund. That is built in here. The €697 million figure is part of the €1.878 billion, is it not?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: However, Mr. O'Grady is telling me the figure for the access to care fund is €6.9 million but may be €130 million. How is that possible? In other words, the access to care fund is now being funded from something else.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: How are we meant to sign off on this stuff? The Department has not presented the information in any kind of comprehensive way which would give me satisfaction we are doing the right thing. I have to say that and that is just one area. We should have had a breakdown of what the figure of €697 million was to be spent on versus the €1.878 billion. We would have been in a better...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: It looks like we may not sign off on the Supplementary Estimate today. That is the view of some members and I support it. We may need to meet again next week to discuss the Estimate because there are gaps in the information. The Minster referred to there being a lot of moving parts and mentioned that we do not have an integrated financial management system, which is, in some respects,...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I know that. However, the money was allocated as a part of a €697 million figure but that is no longer the case. If the figure is €130 million, it is not factored into the €1.8 million of Covid expenditure. That is clear. This means the €130 million must now be allocated or accounted for somewhere else. Where is it being accounted for?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: That is what I said. It is buried in there somewhere but it is not stated. It was not originally allocated under that; it was allocated under the Covid expenditure. However, now it will be accounted for somewhere else. That is only one example. There are many other examples. The point is being made for me that we need all of this information for us to sign off on it. How could we sign...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I have already put some. I am looking for a breakdown of any money that was reprofiled – any money that was allocated under this heading, but it is actually now being spent over here so it is being accounted for over here. That is one area. The €697 million-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: We can go back over all of the questions. However, that is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.