Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion
9:00 am
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
That private health insurance only contributes 9% to the health spend is remarkable. From memory, I think 77% is funded through the tax system so it seems that represents more than three quarters of the health spend. That should be the starting point on which we build.
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