The Health Minister's rejected criticism from doctors over his funding allocation in budget 2015.

The Irish Medical Organisation claims the 13.2 billion euro announced amounts to a cut when the current overrun in the sector is taken into account.

Leo Varadkar says that's wrong, and overall there's a net increase of up to 200 million euro in funding for next year.

He also revealed the latest HSE service plan will be published in around 3 weeks' time.

Minister Varadkar has denied he has a 'frosty' relationship with the doctors union, but questioned the attitude of some interest groups: