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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Pat Flanagan

'Leaked Department of Health tape' leaves minister with 'serious questions to answer'

The Health Minister has serious questions to answer after a leaked audio recording emerged where senior officials in his department allegedly discuss serious financial issues involving the HSE, Labour has claimed.

The Party’s health spokesman Duncan Smith has written to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to demand answers to what he claims are “extraordinary questions of governance, recruitment and accountability” raised by the alleged leaked recording.

Sinn Fein also claimed the recording is a damning indictment of major strategic failings in government health policy.

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