budget 2024

HSE’s 2024 plan to include ‘built-in deficit’, Bernard Gloster warns

HSE chief says funding allocated in Budget 2024 is ‘not adequate’ to support cost of running the health service

Bernard Gloster, HSE chief: “We have very significant levels of funding. We have very significant levels of staffing, but we do not have enough to do what we're currently doing today.” Picture: Alan Place

The funding allocated in Budget 2024 is “not adequate” to support the cost of running the health service, Bernard Gloster, the chief executive of the HSE, has said.

He warned that the HSE’s national service plan for 2024 will include a “built-in deficit” - “the first time in [his] memory that that will be the case” - while up to €2.7 billion would have been required in this week’s package to clear the service of ...