This seems to apply to both capital spending and current spending. Anything that’s not nailed down in the health capital budget is now up for grabs. The Department of Health is understandably keen that other departments’ capital budgets should also be raided. Would that overspending in health budgets was confined to capital projects. Unless Donohoe becomes very unpopular very quickly in certain quarters, he will not be doing his job properly.

Source: The Irish Times January 05, 2019 03:56 UTC