Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I will come back to the Deputy on a number of points. As long as I am Minister of State with responsibility for older people, the two key words are "voice" and "choice" and their voices and choices will be heard. That is the first point.

The second is that we are working really hard to try to see how we can get the creative thinking in place on an extremely complex issue that was not dealt with by the previous Government. If I could say with tongue in cheek, the Deputy told me that the litmus test will be what I can do regarding housing. This was also in the programme for Government in the previous Dáil when Deputy Naughten was a senior Minister so I must say, this is something we-----