Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

From what the Minister is saying, she is with them on that. She is standing by her man, Deputy James Reilly, despite the fact that anybody with an ounce of wit could see that the man is not a suitable occupant of that Ministry. That is my first point.

The second point is that the Minister gave an ode to Róisín. She said she is talented, compassionate and ambitious. I have no doubt she is. I suggest that those are all the qualities required for a Minister of State with a brief as critical as the Minister said primary health care is yet Róisín has walked. She is gone, and she has told us the reason. She told us it was because she does not believe there is sufficient commitment to the delivery of the programme for Government in the area of health. We are not speculating about that. That is what she has told us.

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