The North's Health Minister Mike Nesbitt described finalising financial plans that will be ‘unprecedented’ and ‘painful’

A picket is being planned over lack of parking at Roscommon University Hospital. Independent councillor Anthony Waldron says that the long standing problem at the hospital is a serious issue that needs to be resolved. “It is getting worse and worse.

Minister Simon Harris insisted the Government is investing in the service and criticised Sinn Fein’s plans.