The Opposition has warned that spiralling costs as a result of the Minns Labor Government\u2019s union wage deals are risking future investment in state\u2019s health system, with the Health Minister refusing to rule out cuts to the Coalition\u2019s record health funding.
Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman reiterated the Liberals\u2019 and Nationals\u2019 record investment in health and stressed the importance of Budget management to ensuring health services aren\u2019t put at risk.
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\u201cOur investment was made possible because we had control of the Budget and could manage public sector wages. It\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that next week\u2019s Budget will be completely compromised by out-of-control wage increases as a result of Labor\u2019s deals with their union mates,\u201d Mr Speakman said.
\u201cThe Premier, Treasurer and Health Minister can\u2019t tell us how they\u2019re funding their \u2018additional investment\u2019 and are refusing to rule out potential cuts in next week\u2019s Budget. Chris Minns needs to commit to not cutting a cent of our record $33 billion health investment which was to deliver an additional 10,000 health workers.\u201d
Shadow Minister for Health Matt Kean said a big question mark over the health budget is the ongoing stand-off with the state\u2019s paramedics.
\u201cThe threat of more industrial action continues to linger over this government. The Health Services Union rightfully expect Chris Minns to keep his word and deliver on his promise of a huge pay rise,\u201d Mr Kean said.
\u201cThe bill for Labor\u2019s deal with the unions has so far reached at least $4 billion, and it\u2019s only going to increase, which means more pressure on the health budget which will compromise front line services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Opposition has warned that spiralling costs as a result of the Minns Labor Government\u2019s union wage deals are risking future investment in state\u2019s health system, with the Health Minister refusing to rule out cuts to the Coalition\u2019s record health funding. Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman reiterated the Liberals\u2019 and Nationals\u2019 record investment in health … Continue reading “Health budget at risk from labor promises to unions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22897,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896\/revisions\/22897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}