Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There has been a change in the way in which budgets are being prepared for hospitals. The health information Bill is due later this year. On Deputy Troy's comment in respect of the money-follows-the-patient exercise, the Minister has had approval for a paper on that. It will be published as a Green Paper, in conjunction with a paper to be published very shortly on universal health insurance, which it is the intention of the Government to introduce at the end of its period of office.

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