Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

When health boards were making decisions for the betterment of the health of the people Fine Gael Deputies threatened court action in regard to it. That is the reality. The reality is that we brought in a cancer strategy that was supported, by and large, by the Irish Cancer Society charities such as Europa Donna but Fine Gael Members opposed that. They marched on the issue. They brought the marchers to Dáil Éireann but when I went to my local radio and explained it to people and said-----

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