Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It costs the State little money to provide the home help service. The Western Health Board spent the last two weeks of last year running around the country and my constituency holding conferences to spend the health board budget so that it would not have to send it back to the Department at the end of the year. It was wining and dining in hotels in Galway, Mayo and Westport. I can stand over that statement. Yet it targeted that person——

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