The Minister for Health James Reilly is expected to present the HSE Service Plan for 2014 to Cabinet this morning - for publication sometime this week.
It outlines how the health service plans to cope with almost one billion euro less in funding next year.
Senior officials from the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Public Expenditure have been involved in examining the books at the agency
The most difficult issue in the plan remains the savings from medical card probity - which is earmarked to save 113 million euro by reviewing every single medical card currently issued.
Industry Correspondent with the Irish Times Martin Wall says that figure may change when - once all the horsetrading is finished:
