Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I wish to share my time with Deputy Ciarán Lynch, who I also wish to compliment and congratulate on bringing this motion before the House. This is not an issue of scaremongering. The Minister for Finance in his very minimal contribution to this debate should not have introduced that note to what was otherwise a very reasoned discussion on all sides of the House. He should have been present to hear Members from his own side acknowledge that this is a very real problem and that they are encountering it in their constituency clinics, just as the rest of us are.

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