HSE has to meet €540m funding shortfall

A FURTHER €60 million drop in health levy contributions because of the recession means that the Health Service Executive has to find a way of meeting a funding shortfall of e540m, an Oireachtas committee was told yesterday.

Wed, 25 Mar, 2009 - 00:00

Health Minister Mary Harney said the figure was over and above what was provided in the HSE’s 2009 service plan that she approved last December.

She was speaking at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children.

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