Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

18. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department estimated that the health budget would need to be increased by 25% in 2017 to compensate fully for the austerity cuts made from 2009 to 2014 and to take account of demographic change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12341/17]

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