Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion

Mr. David Moloney:

I accept that point completely. It is very difficult to use valid comparisons for healthcare. However, we also want to get some sense of where we stand relative to other countries and that is not easy. When we look at spend as a proportion of Government spending, we get a fairly convincing sense of the priority of health spending in Irish Government spending. That speaks to a slightly different point, however.