Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

We will spend over €12 billion this year on the delivery of health care to our relatively young population of over 4 million people. We have to do better with that money — that was the purpose of establishing a new unified system. The allocations for this year, which will be made to individual hospitals soon, will be based on performance and results, which was not the way money was allocated in the past.

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