Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I endeavoured to respond seriously to what Deputies Kenny and Rabbitte raised in regard to nursing home charges and to state that we are trying to deal with the issue in a comprehensive way. I know Deputy Rabbitte really wants to talk about the Travers report. I cannot rewrite the Travers report, so there is no point getting into it. I will not get into the arguments. Deputy Rabbitte is making a political point that if all this had been resolved in the past year or two, it would have meant all that happened since 1976 would not have happened. He knows that is nonsense. The intelligent public knows that if this had been sorted out a year ago——

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