Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health

10:10 am

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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In other countries, the cost has increased. Part of the difficulty we encounter is that the price has a destabilising effect on many families. They are refusing to go to GPs because they cannot afford to go.