Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The whole purpose of health service reform is to take resources from the acute hospital sector and spend more resources in the community sector. Deputy Bruton comes here every day of the week to suggest that the rate of growth in public expenditure is too high, yet the Fine Gael Party has not supported one initiative to bring more support into the community sector at the expense of the acute sector.

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