Voluntary hospitals also warn on cost of boosting cybersecurity and weight of accumulated deficits of more than €340m
Voluntary hospitals also warn on cost of boosting cybersecurity and weight of accumulated deficit of more than €340m, including some of the largest in the Republic, are asking the Government to provide “financial certainty” by allocating funding to cover a number of years — as it did recently with national broadcasterthree years ago, which are scheduled to be introduced in October, will come at a “significant cost” which is not accounted for in current funding levels.
Such hospitals include Tallaght, the Mater, St James’s, St Vincent’s in Dublin as well as the Mercy in Cork. Maternity centres such as the Rotunda, the Coombe and the National Maternity Hospital are also voluntary institutions.St James’s Hospital will, for example, receive €496 million this year from the exchequer while Tallaght will have a budget of about €326 million.
In July the Government announced it would provide funding of €725 million over the next three years to RTÉ and voluntary hospitals are seeking similar arrangements. Ministers also provided additional funding to the HSE to cover the remainder of 2024 and 2025.
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