Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Today families have read reports that they face another major hike in their health insurance premiums. This will lead to more of them leaving insurance companies and plans because of an inability to pay. The Government made a commitment to the introduction of universal health insurance, but what is happening is contrary to the development of such a proposition, even if one did not like it. Will the Taoiseach indicate when the White Paper on health insurance is to be published and when the legislation required to progress the universal health insurance agenda, as contained in the programme for Government, will be pursued?

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