Budget 2018: What They Said

Joe Healy, president, Irish Farmers Association

“The reduction in the drugs payment scheme threshold is a step in the right direction in assisting hard-pressed families in covering the cost for their medicines. Much more should be done to reduce the threshold further over the next number of budgets.”

Daragh Connolly, president, Irish Pharmacy Union

“It is time that we had a greater analysis as to how the decisions made in the budget will ...