Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----there still would have been a deficit level to which the service would have had to respond. This is a point we touched on in our June hearings, the issue of the lack of integration still in respect of cost accounting within the HSE. Why is it that even when there was a huge amount of money in the economy there were still deficit crises occurring in our health service? What is the driver for something like this being a recurring theme every year?