Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Is the Taoiseach aware that nowhere within the health strategy or the programme for Government was there any reference to it and yet today he is again prepared to indicate a willingness to sign contracts that will bind future Governments and the State into arrangements with people whose intent is to create a whole new stratum of private, profit-driven health care in this jurisdiction? For the Taoiseach to suggest for one moment that this is about creating greater equity——

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