The Junior Minister for Health Roisin Shortall says there was ‘poor communication’ between herself and the Minister for Health over the planned cuts to the Health Service.
Minister Roisin Shortall says she was only told about the planned €130 million in Health Service Executive (HSE) cutbacks just 1 hour before the press were briefed last Thursday.
It also emerged yesterday evening that the Health Minister James Reilly will look again at the cuts to personal assistants for people with disabilities.
If reversed though other cuts to disability services would have to follow, the Cabinet has agreed.
A group of people with disabilities have been protesting outside Government Buildings and say they will not leave until the cuts are reversed.
Minister Shortall said she supports the government decision to reverse cuts to the personal assistance hours for the disabled.
She was speaking at the launch of the annual report for 2011 by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
But she says she is not pleased with the lack of notice she received before the cuts were announced.
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