Managing health budgets - Limited cash, hard choices

THERE are as many reasons for the Brexit vote as there are lilies in the valley but the failure — or is it really the inability? — to protect Britain’s working class from the straitening impositions of globalisation is certainly one. Another is the perception that social services are not as effective a security blanket as they once were.

Those arguments are equally valid in Ireland.

The shortcomings of our public health service have been, and will be it seems, an issue every time Irish people vote on more or less anything.