John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Since I am prompted to respond to that, if not directly, I refer to 1995 when Deputy Durkan's party was in office. The then Minister for Health, Deputy Noonan, whom I complimented, brought forward the National Cancer Forum and signed off, as it were, by suggesting that the lead hospital should be Tullamore for the delivery of cancer services in the Laois-Offaly and Longford-Westmeath region. It is ironic to reflect that a member of that Minister's party challenged that decision and we wound up three years later fighting the case in the High Court. Deputy Durkan speaks of a flaw. The flaw was that when a Government had the courage to put together the funding——

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