Drumm rejects budget cuts reports

REPORTS of budget cuts in the country’s largest hospital for sick children were rejected yesterday by the chief executive of the Health Service Executive, Prof Brendan Drumm.

He insisted the budget of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin had not been cut by €9 million.

Prof Drumm told a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: “The most recent figures received from the hospital indicate it will have a year-end shortfall of €100,000.”