Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Minister for chewing gum is at it again. His conceit and arrogance are unbridled in the history of Fianna Fáil Governments. Without interruption from the Wicklow hills, when can we expect to see real improvements in the accident and emergency units? Will it take one month or six months, or is this another false dawn like all the other false dawns we have had from the Government in the past three years? In the poorest countries in the world, for instance in Peru, people bring their own drugs to hospital. In a country that is knee-deep in financial wealth it appears that people here need to bring a bed or chair to a hospital. While the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, might not like that, it is almost a fact of life.

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