Dáil debates
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members]
8:45 pm
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
With all that advice and increased funding one could have expected balanced budgets. Instead, what we find is that during his tenure as Minister for Health, Deputy Martin still managed to over-shoot his departmental budget and had to be bailed out with supplementary budgets amounting to €664 million. Between 1997 and 2010, Fianna Fáil's period in office, €2.2 billion was spent on supplementary estimates. Deputy Martin as health Minister during the best economic times could not control the health spend yet he has the nerve to criticise those who have controlled it in the worst of economic times.
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