John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I should have made the point that I did not waste my time reading out the 25 enormous financial increases in health introduced by this Administration. The Deputies do not want to believe them, although they are the facts. It is nonsense that, while people make a genuine effort to resolve the difficulties in the health service, as soon as an issue crops up somewhere, we spend the morning attacking the relevant Minister as if it was his or her doing. If we all believe in trying to sort out the problems in the health service, there should be a combined effort in support of the Government for a period of time rather than being critical of the huge advances that have been made in the past nine years.

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