Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The key issue is that the Government is pressing ahead with the reform of the health service, with the provision of primary care centres which is what matters to the people and to those who want to see a better health care system. We are providing the funding for that and that was done in the stimulus package.

With regard all the allegations, implications and so on that somehow there was political interference in it, as I said, I met today with the Minister, Deputy Reilly, the Secretary General of his Department, the new CEO of the HSE and they told me directly that there was no ministerial involvement in the selection of any individual site.

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