Politics

Budget allocation to health ‘mind boggling’, says Mary Lou McDonald

The Sinn Féin leader told Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that the Government had “thrown in the towel on health”

McDonald claimed the Government had chosen, with “eyes wide open”, to “blow a massive €1.3 billion hole” in health services. Picture: RollingNews.ie

The budget allocation to health services in Ireland is “mind boggling” and will have “disastrous” consequences for patients, Mary Lou McDonald has warned.

The Sinn Féin leader told Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that the government had “thrown in the towel on health”.

In robust exchanges during Leaders’ Questions in the Dail, Varadkar rejected McDonald’s claims as “characteristically misleading” and said spending on health in Ireland would reach record levels in 2024.