HSE chief said last week the health allocation was ‘not adequate for all current costs’
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said “we simply do not know at this point” what level of demand and inflation would be seen in the HSE. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/CollinsMr Donnelly said the report would have to consider factors such as medical inflation, post pandemic patient demand, wars in Europe as well as modern innovations, artificial intelligence and breakthrough medicines.
A freeze on the recruitment of junior doctors, healthcare assistants, home helps and other grades in the health service has been put in place by the HSE to address overspending in the sector.said during Leaders’ Questions earlier that he fully respected the right of the HSE’s chief executive to comment on the budget and to brief TDs and that he was not the first to do so.
Labour leader Ivana Bacik said it was “extremely serious” that the Minister for Health had announced a recruitment freeze during an “acknowledged staffing crisis”. “Most of all, it is a hammer blow to the people of Ireland and those who are now wondering whether they will have access to health services if and when they need them.”said the Government was attempting to “control the narrative, change the story, shift the blame” but certainly not “fix the problem that they created with the chronic and very deliberate underfunding of our health services”.
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