Donohoe warns of contained health spending under no-deal Brexit outcome

Spending in health must be contained this year as the government plans for worst-case scenarios under a no-deal Brexit outcome, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned.

Addressing TDs at the Oireachtas Budget Oversight Committee, he set out how the government's Budget 2020 plans were caught between possible "over-heating and the real possibility of economic disruption.