Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

After decades of corruption, inefficiency, official manipulation and control by vested interests, the system entirely collapsed. The warm public response to the appointment of the Tánaiste as Minister for Health and Children is a reflection of the public's recognition that the entirety of the problem in the health service is not exclusively to do with the allocation of money, as some Deputies protest.

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