Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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It is, but today is unusual because I have only received one request for a day trip and it is not even lunchtime. There will be at least four before the end of the day. It is important that I spend as much time as possible in the Dáil and Seanad and in my Department. I would love to spend two days a week on day trips and trips overseas but looking at trolleys and overcrowded clinics will not solve any problems. If it did, they would have been solved a long time ago.

The real work is to be done here and in the Department. I shall set aside as much time as I can to travel around the place. Even if I took one day a week it would still take me a year just to visit all the hospitals in the country.