Pushing to get health the financial life-support it needs

Health should become a Government ‘priority’ now that the economy has stabilised, Health Minister Simon Harris tells Political Reporter Fiachra O Cionnaith.

Simon Harris starts laughing —half-genuinely, half-awkwardly — when the subject is raised.

In an interview with RTÉ Radio’s Today with Seán O’Rourke programme last July, the new health minister said until now there had been a lack of “political leadership” in health.