Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail)
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I guess it was a reactive thing initially. There was an expectation or hope, however naive it was, that it would be a short-term emergency thing. There has never been a real acknowledgement that this is something real - it is here, it is going to be here for the long term and it needs to be invested in and resourced.