Health service needs another huge bailout, warns Varadkar

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has told his cabinet colleagues that his department is likely to require a supplementary estimate again this year, with some official sources suggesting that the eventual figure could be as high as last year’s €680 million bailout.

Varadkar told a recent cabinet meeting that budget pressures and additional services would mean that the HSE would exceed its allocated budget before the end of the year and require more ...