Northern Ireland budget: Robin Swann warns delay 'sabotages health service'

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Northern Ireland budget: Robin Swann warns delay 'sabotages health service'
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Further delays to a Stormont budget would be 'tantamount to sabotaging the rebuilding of our health service', Health Minister RobinSwannMoH warns

However that sharply limits new spending decisions and reallocations of unspent funds cannot be made.Mr Swann said that as efforts are made to rebuild after the pandemic, it is "hard to imagine a worse possible time to deprive our health service of budgetary certainty across the short, medium and long term".

"Consider then that we are condemning a £7bn a year health and social care system to similar circumstances.

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