Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Labour)

That party destroyed this country and sold our economic sovereignty. Yet Deputy Kelleher and his colleagues have the cheek to put forward a motion suggesting that they would reform the Health Service Executive. Their fingerprints are all over the mismanagement and dysfunction of the HSE. The colleague sitting beside Deputy Kelleher earlier was the architect of the executive. Members opposite no longer have Mary Harney to blame; that cushion is gone. History speaks for itself in this matter. The motion contradicts the party's very existence and its performance in government.

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