Health cutbacks – totalling less than initially planned – will be announced this morning.
It follows the approval of the HSE Service Plan by the Health Minister James Reilly.
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The plan to reduce the number of medical cards and save €113m has been scaled back – with the cuts now totalling €25m.
Some of the shortfall will be made up by the Department of Social Protection – it’s not paying out as much in social welfare because of the fall in the number of people on the dole.
But cuts of more than €500m will still have to be made – and the extent of those will be announced this morning.
