Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)

-----or the corporate vultures about which Deputy Boyd Barrett is so fond of talking. We intend to reverse the privatisation of the health system introduced by the Ahern-Harney Government. This was our Government's first statement on health policy. It is naive and misleading of Deputies to suggest that money will solve the problems in the health service. If money was the solution, the problems would have been solved long ago. We need fundamental reform. We recognise the system's dysfunction to which Deputy Catherine Murphy referred and we are determined to bring about a fundamental reform to provide the modern and responsive health system that the public is entitled to expect.

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