Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Of course, some people will not necessarily buy into that, but at least the process will be open and accountable. All political parties and none will have an opportunity to make an input as well as prioritising and identifying key areas where they think money needs to be provided. As we all know, specific expenditure from a defined budget will cause difficulties elsewhere. However, we should at least have that honest and open debate as opposed to the spin and disingenuous efforts of the past five years, pretending that in some way budgets were sufficient to sustain services when we know they were not even demographically proofed. In welcoming this health debate, from now on we must be honest concerning public expectations. We must ensure we have a budgetary process that can underpin HSE services instead of the pretence we currently have.

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