Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

We continually hear the Taoiseach and Ministers regurgitating a long list of statistics before the cameras. We must listen to it daily, and today it concerned the Minister of State's portfolio in the health area. The Taoiseach told us how many hundreds of millions the Government had spent, but the one statistic that Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats do not want us to know is that they have closed almost half the post offices in Ireland.

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