Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

If the Manchester payment was, in the words of the Irish Independent, "morally wrong", are decisions which adversely affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people not also morally wrong? Are they not also deserving of media attention and commentary? What about the massive tax breaks and the allocation of land at public hospital sites for developers of private for-profit hospitals? This is in the context of a grossly inequitable health service where instead of the promised 3,000 beds, we have had a thousand trolley usages over the past five days.

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