Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Those people are entitled to a little better from the Taoiseach, for his management, not the individual staff and consultants who are working in the health service, his responsibility and accountability for the way he spends taxpayers' money on the health service because we are not getting value for the money that is being spent on it. It is a mess and it is time that something was done by the Government, other than casting blame, to put it right.

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