Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I cannot understand a strategy that is in favour of private hospitals five miles away, but not if they are five minutes away.

I want to come to the Attorney General's advice. If the Attorney General tells me I should not release his advice, I have to accept that. I am obliged to take his advice under the Constitution. I should be a very irresponsible Minister if I did not take the advice of the Law Officer of this State. If the Law Officer of this State tells me we need primary legislation to put matters beyond legal doubt, that is what we should do.

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