Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Very regrettably, it was not. Susie Long concluded, from her conversation of that day, that it was because she was a public patient. I can understand that, but that is not the practice or the policy.

I do not want to repeat the data to Deputy Gilmore but enormous resources are being put into the health services. In the period I have been Taoiseach, they have increased from approximately €3 billion to €15 billion.

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