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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is referring to the 2011 report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They are published annually. I do not have them with me. They are on the Department's website. We will check it this minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: We are dealing with the Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017, not 2011 to 2016. If the Deputy wants a meeting on the latter, we can return.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They are all public.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Can we not debate it now rather than lose the point, by agreement of the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: With more debate, we-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I always come to this committee to engage in as open a way as a I can, more in hope than in expectation that Parliament might act like Parliament and engage on these issues in a serious and mature way as opposed to the completely partisan way that we just heard. Hope springs eternal and I do my best always to ask Members of the Oireachtas to step up to the plate of being real providers of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I did not call the Deputy silly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I said the Deputy is making silly points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: You declared-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I wish to be completely civil, despite the fact that basically I was called a liar and that the document, which is the result of a year's work by officials across all Departments, is called a work of fiction. That is not a basis to begin analysis. In the immediate aftermath of the budget Deputy Sean Fleming issued a statement along the lines of the presentation he made about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Performance budgeting is something we introduced over the last two years, beginning with some Departments, and it now applies across all Departments. When a Department presents the expenditure subhead, it also indicates what the subhead is for and the expected outcomes. At the end of the year the relevant committee, be it the health committee or the education committee, analyses it. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: That is fundamentally a question that should be posed to the Minister for Health, who is statutorily and constitutionally responsible for managing health expenditure. Obviously, the Government as a whole listens to every line Department so that we can make rational decisions about a finite cake and how to divide it up. In truth, we have gone through a very significant decrease in public...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: It is enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I would not agree with the Deputy on that basis. Are they sufficient to meet requirements? The question that begs is, could we spend more? The answer, of course, is "Yes". I have had this discussion with the OECD. I went to talk to the OECD about health expenditure, because it is a pressure point in every developed country. There is some sort of health expenditure focus in every...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The health sector current expenditure - the gross Revised Estimate for 2014 was €12.4 billion. The net was €12.05 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: That is the Revised Estimate book that we published for 2014.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: He actually said publicly that it is sufficient.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I think what the Deputy is asking in bottom-line terms is whether we should allocate more money to health. Is that what she is asking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Brendan Howlin: A lot of the work we could get into here is proper to the line Department. When the committee on health looks at it, it will look at the tables in health and will go through each line with the Minister for Health and his team. I think the committee members will ask those questions about whether it will be enough in terms of the drugs refund scheme, acute hospitals, or any of the programmes.