Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

Instead of asking the Opposition to embark on a kind of Tallaght strategy it is important that we nail this issue. We should not misrepresent the situation because Alan Dukes believed in the policy behind the Tallaght strategy. The Labour Party and the wider Opposition, which used to include the Green Party, which we can now forget about, oppose this Minister on her policy, her privatisation agenda, and her desire to deepen the divide and cause greater inefficiency in the health service through privatisation. We disagree with all of that and will continue to oppose it because it will make things worse, rather than better.

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