Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

We are not able to do it here despite all the money we are spending on health. We should be doing it here. Is the National Treatment Purchase Fund the best answer Deputy Blaney can come up with? His comments remind me of the reply I received today when I tabled a question to the Minister for Education and Science about the results of a young man's junior certificate examination. The Deputies opposite should listen to this as an example of the kind of country we have now. Deputy Blaney was very quiet when he was an Independent. Has he found a mouth now that he has joined Fianna Fáil?

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