Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We spent a lot of time talking about the Estimates procedure. One can argue that there was not necessarily overspending in the Department of Health this year but under budgeting. The budget was wrong and flawed, which is what we said on 5 December last year. We knew the budget was not genuine and the allocated amount was lower than what people in the industry, outside the Department, knew to be the case. We said the budget was not valid. The Government needs to get an accurate budget at the beginning of the year, which did not happen in health this year.

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