Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour)

I support the Government amendment. The Government is determined to reform the health service. While this poses a challenge to Government, we will meet it. However, reform will take some time.

The Opposition motion states that our plan for reform will fail despite that we have not yet had an opportunity to complete it. Fianna Fáil knows all about failure. Its plans failed. While expenditure in the health service doubled during Fianna Fáil's time in office, it left us with an under-performing health service.

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