This tax measure brought in €57m more than expected, but was it fair?
A cap on tax relief on health insurance brought in €151 million.
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A cap on tax relief on health insurance brought in €151 million.
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Analysis: The Health Minister’s intervention on universal health insurance yesterday is all about managing expectations.
The new Health Minister says the plan is “too ambitious”.
IMO President Dr Matthew Sadlier was also critical of the free GP care plan and Universal Health Insurance proposals.
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Mary Lou McDonald said that the coalition has to date “flatly and coldly refused the Bethany survivors the dignity of recognition”.
Minister Reilly said he doesn’t know but if we’d implemented it last year, it would have cost less than €920 on average.
The Taoiseach says the plan is a delivery on a promise of change.
The Fianna Fáil leader has delivered a keynote speech to delegates at the party’s Ard Fheis in Dublin tonight, criticising the government’s policies towards the elderly and said the party will oppose universal health insurance.
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Health Minister James Reilly was speaking at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in Dublin this evening.
The long-awaited plan could come before the cabinet as early as Tuesday.
Kathleen Lynch has said that there are difficulties around the cost of universal helath insurance but denied being kept in the dark on the matter.
The Minister for Health also said the system will “end the unfair two-tier health system we currently have.”