Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Summer Economic Statement: Discussion
5:30 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The Deputy did. The aim of all of this is to sustainably and differently fund our health services across this year and next. We are seeing, particularly in the emergency departments of our hospitals, a very significant increase that is ahead of my expectations with regard to the number of older people who are presenting to hospitals. That is combined with difficulties that continue to be there with regard to how money is spent. What I aim to do in the summer economic statement is to deal with the day-to-day funding of health for this year and the next in a different way.
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