Reilly ‘dismantling’ health service

Former minister of state Roísín Shortall launched a blistering attack on Minister for Health James Reilly, claiming he was going to “completely dismantle our public health service and send it into freefall”. She described his legislation on health service governance as a “face-saving exercise”, and said the transfer of responsibility for the health service’s €13 billion annual budget to the Department of Health would result in the Minister having “complete control over the health service”, with no checks and balances for good procedures and governance. (Irish Times) >