Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

There were debates on it for weeks and months, as the Deputy knows. There is an onus on all of us, particularly people who work in the public sector, to support the developments. One never hears somebody from a private hospital moaning about it and running it down. We constantly hear people criticising their place of work. People working in the public sector do not seem to have the same affinity with their institutions as their private sector counterparts. That is a great pity.

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