Extra €500m prescription for health is no magic pill for bad policy choices

THE €500m supplementary health budget finally admitted to by the Taoiseach yesterday in the Dail was always inevitable and a direct result of shoddy political decisions made by his own government. See below for analysis from Irish Independent on 26 June 2014. 

Continued slashing of health budget may yet bring down this Government

See below for post-election analysis from Irish Independent on 26 May 2014.

FIFTY-SEVEN per cent of voters cited the removal of discretionary medical cards as the main reason for their fury with the Government last Friday. Anger about medical cards came ahead of water charges and property tax in the RTE exit poll.

Pre-election government guff won’t ease medical card issue

See below analysis from Irish Independent, published on 22 May 2014.