Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has described the news that the Department of Health is facing a funding crisis of at least \u20ac600 million as deeply disturbing. The Sinn F\u00e9in TD said it will inevitably impact on current and promised services.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cYears of budget cuts, dubious forward planning, poor work and pay conditions for frontline staff while more and management are employed, has broken our health system.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll this has contributed to a health service that is not delivering services people need and certainly not without going over their budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn budget day last year Sinn F\u00e9in warned the Fine Gael government, and Fianna F\u00e1il who signed off on their budget, that they were not giving our health service the money necessary to even standstill let alone expand and progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cWeeks later the then head of the HSE wrote a letter highlighting the very grave impact of the government\u2019s choices. He predicted the service was being underfunded for 2018 to the tune of hundreds of millions and this is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year the government face the same dilemma, either face up to their legacy of underfunding of the health service, pay off the health \u2018overspend\u2019, and contribute funding for additional services on top of this, or they can continue with their false budgeting by pretending the crisis doesn\u2019t exist or blaming citizens for getting ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny funding increase on last year\u2019s budget below \u20ac600m will mean that no new services can be delivered and no amount of voodoo economics from Pascal Donohoe and Simon Harris can change that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our alternative budget proposals we have covered the result of this under spending by allocating \u20ac600m to cover the health \u2018overspend\u2019, demographics, and pay, and we have also provided for an additional funding envelope of \u20ac450m on top of this to deliver the services our people need.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine Gael\u00a0 have a choice, they can either face up to their false budgeting and pay off the health \u2018overspend\u2019, or they can ignore it and let patients suffer because the health services will not be available.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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