The Department of Health is seeking supplementary funding this year of around €680m for health and related issues.
Of this, €510m is for the expected HSE year-end Budget overrun.
The balance is to fund increased State Claims Agency costs, the recently introduced early access programme for drug treatments for certain people with Hepatitis C and some spending brought forward from next year to start easing the problem of delayed discharges in hospitals.
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said: "This large supplementary budget also now allows us to bring forward some spending from 2015 into December of this year, including an early access programme for new medicines for Hepatitis C which started on Monday, and the release of 300 additional places on the Fair Deal scheme, which also started this week.
"It will have no impact whatsoever on the budget for the Department of Health for next year and the HSE Service Plan announced last week is unaffected and the figures remain unchanged."
