Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have the biggest health budget in the history of the State and it will rise again next year. It will not be long before we are in the top two or three in the world in terms of spending per capita. We need to move the debate on from how much money we spend to how it is being spent and what difference it is making for patients. We have a couple of hundred more consultants now than there were a number of years ago. I cannot say specifically whether consultants will be recruited in that area-----

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