Fiona O'Malley (Dún Laoghaire, Progressive Democrats)

Labour's performance was not a whole lot better. I am afraid that Deputy Broughan took the opportunity, rather than to showcase the Labour Party policy which we are all waiting to see and hear about, to peddle a falsehood. He admitted himself it was a fabrication, and he was rather embarrassed and had to withdraw it. It is an awful pity that Labour once again demonstrated that it does nothing but knock other policies. I am familiar with the party's health policy. All it has ever produced as a health policy is universal general practitioner health care.

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