Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers yesterday revealed that HSE West and North West, along with three other HSE regions, are to be stripped of their powers over day-to-day spending.
Speaking to the Irish Times, Minister Chambers said the regions have shown a “completely ineffective ability to manage the budget that they’ve been allocated”.
It has been seen as a setback on the Government’s policy of decentralising HSE decision making from Dublin to the six regional authorities.
Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon-Galway and GP Martin Daly has been speaking to Midwest Radio’s Scott Stephens, who asked him for his reaction to the news…
