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Wed 09 Sep 2009Harney says cuts in health funding will be 'considerable'
NEXT YEAR will be the most challenging year ever from the perspective of financing the health service, Minister for Health Mary Harney said yesterday. She made it clear the level of spending cuts in 2010 would be “considerable”.
The Government, she said, had announced it would take €3 billion out of current expenditure next year and, given that health accounted for such a large proportion of annual expenditure, the cuts would clearly impact on the health service.
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