At the Oireachtas Health Committee, the Department of Health’s Secretary General Robert Watt will tell TDs and Senators that he accepts that 'control of expenditure' needs to improve.
Expenditure on catering in the health service will have risen by 37 per cent by the end of the year, the Oireachtas Health Committee will hear this Tuesday morning.
In his opening statement, Mr Watt will outline that when staff costs and medicines are taken out of consideration, expenditure will be €573m more than forecast. There will also be a 37 per cent increase in the cost of catering, a 28 per cent increase in laboratory costs and a 27 per cent increase in the cost of X-ray and imaging.Mr Watt will say: "We accept that the forecasts of health expenditure need to improve as does control of expenditure.
He will also say that there has been an "effective doubling in spend over the last eight years" and argue that "this is a more significant investment than most other developed countries".
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