John Bruton
Ceist:36 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his views on the recent recommendation of NESC that, on balance, real public expenditure on health should not increase in the period ahead.
Vol. 406 No. 3
36 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his views on the recent recommendation of NESC that, on balance, real public expenditure on health should not increase in the period ahead.
The recent NESC report A Strategy for the Nineties, includes a valuable analysis of the key issues in health policy, and its conclusions provided an important input to the formulation of the Programme for Economic and Social Progress.
The report discusses trends in public health expenditure, drawing in particular on the earlier work of the Commission on Health Funding, and arrives at a conclusion which may usefully be quoted in full: