Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The legislation will now come before the House in the autumn and very large sums of money were based on that legislation being passed before then. That is what we were told last December. That is how false the health Estimate was. Patients are going to suffer on the double between now and Christmas because of that dishonesty in preparing the Estimate. The legislation will not now be ready until the autumn at the earliest.

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