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.