'They'd have announced a new hinge on a door': Not everyone is impressed with the €11 billion plan for health
“If a new hinge was to be put on a hospital door they’d nearly have announced it.”
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“If a new hinge was to be put on a hospital door they’d nearly have announced it.”
It says it did not want to be seen to be interfering.
There’s money for capital spending to defend our most vulnerable cities from flooding – the trouble is the government wants to toss it down the drain to keep a few seats in Leinster House.
The extra money will go toward school projects, road maintenance and repairs, and retrofitting for local authority houses.
Schools, healthcare and roads are also likely to benefit from measures being announced by the government later today.
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Construction could begin in September on portions of the A5 route, which was meant to link Monaghan and Derry.
The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed welcomes Fergus O’Dowd’s assurance that welfare rates will not be cut.
The government’s capital expenditure announcements also included the news that the linking of the Luas lines will go ahead.
Join us from 12 noon when we’ll be liveblogging the major goverment speech on capital spending with details on plans for projects such as Metro North, Thornton Hall and DIT.
Several major projects are expected to be set aside as €750million is cut from the Government’s capital budget.
Transport minister says his home constituency will get its train to Dublin.
Some rail projects are dropped but other motorways will be finished.