Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It was the Cinderella part of the services for a long time and there were significant moneys involved. In fairness to those involved in the area, this has often been fully acknowledged and recognised. The point is that we have a problem now and the problem we need to address is how we re-organise the provision of those services to try to maintain sufficient moneys at the frontline-----

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