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The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Hard Shoulder Highlights with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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''It's unrealistic, mangers lose the incentive to really stick to them''

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has said that public spending on health in Ireland has been rising at a fast pace. And on top of that, the system will come under further pressure as the population ages and major reforms are implemented under the 10-year Sláintecare programme. Our health spend has been ranked sixth of the 33 OECD countries. Do we get value for money? Eddie Casey is the chief economist with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Brian Turner is health economist in UCC, they both joined Kieran to discuss...