Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

We receive letters almost every day from people in the health service telling us everything is unsafe and we do not have enough nurses and so on. According to the OECD report, Ireland has the highest ratio of nurses in its health care system compared with any system in the world and, for example, twice as many as in France. I will not accept a failure to invest in resources leads to the issue we are discussing.

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