Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

——we are not trying to provide differentiated treatment. The whole idea of bringing in the fair deal scheme is to give equality of treatment and equality of eligibility for people, whether public or private. That is what we are trying to achieve. It is the same with the hospital system. All we hear from people who, on the one hand, want to see capital developments in the hospital system refused, because they are blinded ideologically by the facts——

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