Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----in respect of achieving these cutbacks, which would essentially destroy the fabric of the health sector as we know it. This is a very challenging time and I commend the clinical and medical teams, nurses and doctors who work on the front line. They have made serious changes within the context of the Croke Park agreement to rosters, travel and giving commitments so that the patients about which the Deputy and I are concerned can have a front-line service in the best possible way. That is unlike what the Deputy's Government left behind it, with magic cuts that left us €300 million, €400 million or €500 million just like that. It is the same old trick year on year and it will not work any longer.

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