He said he was given this advice when he recently met World Health Organisation expert Dr Mike Ryan in Geneva. Mr Donnelly said: “We need to do everything we can to be ready,” adding that he will be appointing an expert to do the “detailed scope” for an emerging threat agency. Speaking at the Fianna Fáil party think-in, Mr Donnelly said: “We don’t know what the nature of any future track might be. The first is a set of measures and a set off errors where the HSE is spending money it should not be spending. “It’s demographics, it’s post-Covid, it’s patient volumes and it’s prices of medicines and wage increases and so forth.”

Source: The Herald September 12, 2023 07:46 UTC