Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

My philosophy is that we have to make choices and have priorities. As we cannot do everything, we must decide what is the fairest and best way of using the resources available in the health care system. It is about giving benefits to those who need them most rather than giving them to those who may not need them at the expense of others who could do with them more. That is the consequence of the concept of universality.

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