James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

I am also conscious of time. This debate is about the health cutbacks and the HSE generally. More than 100,000 people work in it and it is not delivering. Regardless of what the Minister's colleagues state, all 320 people who are lying on trolleys today know that it is not working. People waiting for colonoscopies for as long as Susie Long did know it.

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