James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

We have the tools to make the difference. We have the people to make the difference. What they did not have in the past was real leadership. What we have allowed happen is the creation of an environment that allows new leadership to flourish. That is happening. It is happening through the clinical programmes, through the special delivery unit and on the front line.

As a result of that and because of those good staff, we will fix the health service. Ultimately, we will get this country out of the economic morass in which Deputy Martin left it through his own ineptitude when he was in power.

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