HSE's budget deficit to be €500m more than previously projected, Dáil committee told
Department of Health secretary-general Robert Watt moved to 'assure' the PAC there was a 'shared focus' across the health service in terms of it needing 'stronger budgetary controls'. picture: Collins
The HSE is set to run a budget deficit of at least €1.75bn for 2023, up €500m on 2022, as the health service’s financial woes continue.
Addressing the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday, HSE chief financial officer Stephen Mulvany said the deficit, which depicts the HSE’s expenditure being greater than its overall funding “will have increased in the order of half a billion” for end 2023.
