Sir, – Pat Leahy writes (News, October 3rd) that the anticipated health budget of €25.5 billion for 2024 will be more than twice the level of health spending as recently as 2015. Our population hasn’t doubled since 2015 and I don’t think anyone will suggest that the service we get is twice as good as it was then.
Would the well-compensated senior management in the Department of Health and the HSE please tell us what we’re getting for the additional €12 billion or €13 billion?
As has previously been noted on your page, our unproductive allocation of tens of billions of euro each year means that we are now reaching the stage of having a self-serving health bureaucracy with a country attached. – Yours, etc,
PAT O’BRIEN,
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Rathmines,
Dublin 6.