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13/02/2019
Ministers Urged To Address Delayed Health Projects
The Ministers for Health and Public Expenditure must outline exactly which health projects are to be delayed due to the overun at the National Children's Hospital.
Calling for clarification from the Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe, Labour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly, said: "Paschal Donohoe today announced that €99 million will be taken out of funds already allocated to several different departments, including €24 million from an already stretched Department of Health budget. We haven't been told in detail what Health capital projects will now be left on the long finger for an indefinite period of time.
"The Government has been sending mixed messages on many long awaited capital projects such as sixty additional beds in University Hospital Limerick. This hospital is consistently the most over-crowded in the State and it is time for Fine Gael to explain whether this project will actually go ahead."
Deputy Kelly said that Minister Donohoe "has many questions to answer" when it comes to why we are now in the position where projects will be delayed.
He continued: "Minister Donohoe has completely damaged his own reputation as being responsible when it comes to taxpayer's money by keeping his eye off the ball on this project.
"I'll be pressing for both Minister Harris and Minister Donohoe to provide a list of what capital projects are being put on the back burner tomorrow in the Dáil."
(MH/CM)
Calling for clarification from the Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe, Labour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly, said: "Paschal Donohoe today announced that €99 million will be taken out of funds already allocated to several different departments, including €24 million from an already stretched Department of Health budget. We haven't been told in detail what Health capital projects will now be left on the long finger for an indefinite period of time.
"The Government has been sending mixed messages on many long awaited capital projects such as sixty additional beds in University Hospital Limerick. This hospital is consistently the most over-crowded in the State and it is time for Fine Gael to explain whether this project will actually go ahead."
Deputy Kelly said that Minister Donohoe "has many questions to answer" when it comes to why we are now in the position where projects will be delayed.
He continued: "Minister Donohoe has completely damaged his own reputation as being responsible when it comes to taxpayer's money by keeping his eye off the ball on this project.
"I'll be pressing for both Minister Harris and Minister Donohoe to provide a list of what capital projects are being put on the back burner tomorrow in the Dáil."
(MH/CM)
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