Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

Has the Taoiseach ensured there are no typographical errors in the programme for Government? When one reads the line "a world class health system", one wonders whether the word "third" should be before "world". Is that what the Government meant to say, given the evidence? Last night's television programme was more clear evidence of the problems in the health service.

I must take my hat off to the Taoiseach. In the late 1980s, the then Fianna Fáil Government cut bed numbers from 18,000 to 12,000. The Taoiseach now makes a virtue of trying to put back in some beds. That takes the biscuit.

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