Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

The Fianna Fáil members are happy to lay all the blame at the Tánaiste's door. When the Tánaiste was appointed to the Department of Health and Children I said she was a decent, hardworking, capable Minister. That will be tested yet again but the patience of the people of Wexford has been strained to breaking point. When Deputy Tim O'Malley read out his litany of hospitals he did not mention Wexford General Hospital. I ask that the needs of the people of Wexford be addressed and that the facilities the elderly, the infirm and the ill of Wexford require be delivered forthwith.

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