John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I want to be direct in all my answers. I have no intention whatsoever of reviewing that. The Deputy asked me some minutes ago how we were to implement A Vision for Change and what we were going to do for the psychiatric services. The nonsense that we are talking about a prison and a hospital in the very same setting could not be further from the truth. It is two separate approaches and two separate roads. More importantly, if we are talking about scarce resources, the sale of Dundrum would realise €350 million and the building of a hospital would cost €150 million. The balance of €200 million will be invested in exactly what the Deputy is seeking. I am as concerned about the patient as anybody else. If the Deputy is blaming——

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