Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

It should be about the quality of care the patient receives and the safety of the service that is delivered. It should also be done to a particular, recognised international standard. It should not be about the grubbiness of appealing to the lowest common denominator in terms of the argument. We have had too much of that. It is facile to suggest that one Minister who is responsible for 110,000 people working in the health service is somehow the root cause of every idiosyncrasy that takes place within that service.

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