Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am going to be positive about the changes that can happen for patients and I hope we are real drivers for change on this side of the House.

Sinn Féin proposed this motion but Sinn Féin and its DUP colleagues run the health service in Northern Ireland and are bringing forward many of the changes about which we are talking and encountering many of the problems we are encountering. Sinn Féin enjoys the benefit of getting £4 billion from Her Majesty's Government to lessen the impacts the cutbacks are having on the health service in Northern Ireland. North of the Border, Sinn Féin is doing it while south of the Border, we are doing it. We are trying to work to the best of our ability to deliver the best possible health services.

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