Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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3272. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it will cost to maintain the pre-Covid19 levels of service provision across the health service in 2022 in view of demographic changes and inflation and Covid-19. [41204/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is engaging in ongoing dialogue with the HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the 2022 Estimates, and this process will include an analysis of the potential impact of demographic change, inflation and COVID-19.

These discussions are still progressing and until they are concluded it would not be appropriate for me to anticipate the outcome.