Saturday 5 November 2016

FactCheck: Does this year’s Budget include the biggest ever investment in health?

ONE OF THE government’s biggest talking points in the aftermath of last month’s Budget announcement was the claim that they had just made the biggest investment in health in Irish history.

Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe said it during his Dáil speech, Health Minister Simon Harris said it during a post-Budget press conference, and Taoiseach Enda Kenny repeated the claim in the Dáil later on.

You can see excerpts of government ministers reiterating the claim, in the video above.

In his Dáil speech on Budget Day, Paschal Donohoe described the health budget as “the highest ever level of health funding in the history of our country”. For the full article click here 



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