Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

For the first time it will do away with the two-tier health care system that we have had for far too long, with people being able to buy faster treatment and better outcomes in health care simply because they have more money. For the first time we will move to a health care system based on need rather than means, which I welcome.

I will also mention the establishment of the new Educate Together together at Basin Lane in Rialto in Dublin 8. I have been very involved with this campaign for many years and there is an existing Educate Together national school in Portobello that will move there. I am pleased that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, speaking at a ceremony to mark this change on Tuesday, noted the need to ensure greater diversity in the primary school structure and that the Portobello school would be moving to a site at Basin Lane formerly occupied by a Christian Brothers school. It is an historic move towards diversifying patronage and ensuring greater parental choice in the education of children.