Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I listened in silence to what Deputy Gilmore had to say and I would like to respond to him. If his position is not that the health service can be developed without reference to budgets, then we must live within those budgets; otherwise, we cannot develop the health service. People who come into hospitals with serious cases will of course be dealt with.

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