Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

I move:

That Dáil Éireann:

noting:

the electoral success of candidates opposed to the Government's plans to build private hospitals on public lands;

that over 1,000,000 voters supported such candidates;

that the former Government which alone supported this plan lost its majority in the house and a total of nine seats;

concludes that no electoral mandate for this flawed policy exists; and

calls on the Government to abandon this flawed policy immediately.

I wish to share time with Deputies Flanagan, Clune, Crawford, Reilly and Creighton.

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