Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion
10:00 am
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
Yet IFAC, which criticises the Government all the time for spending too much, said "the health allocation for 2024 [in the budget] is ... [not even] enough to cover [these] demographic and price pressures". Where was the lack of response coming from in terms of ensuring those elements were included in the budget allocation? Was the case not made strongly enough by the Department of Health or was the Department of public expenditure not listening?
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