Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

A further income stream from the private insurance companies to cover private patients in public hospitals amounting to €143 million will now be deprived from the public health service. The next day none of the three Ministers, not even the Minister, Deputy Brennan — whom, by the way, I congratulate as undoubtedly the great survivor and who I am delighted to see reappointed——

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