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Fri 11 Nov 2006FG says funding initiatives already announcedHealth reaction: Many of the health services which are to be funded next year under the Estimates and which have been branded as new were in fact announced previously, the Fine Gael health spokesman Dr Liam Twomey claimed last night.He said some of the money for A&E improvements went back to the Minister for Health Mary Harney's 10-point plan and that other so-called new units such as the maternity unit in Cork were "just getting re-announced because the Government hadn't got around to doing what it promised to do in 2006".