Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Last Tuesday, the Minister for Health and Children indicated she had signed off on the service plan for the HSE for the coming year, which indicated there would be cuts in service provision in 2009 in excess of half a billion euro. Members have learned since that even that service plan costing did not reflect the true reality and that it now is just short of €1 billion.

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