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

-----the evening before the announcement was made. For the past 18 months, the Minister has had a track record of unmitigated disaster. He closed public nursing homes while being up to his neck in the private nursing sector. He promised he would make savings in the areas of consultant contracts and generic drugs, and would recoup costs for private beds in public hospitals. Worse, he has imposed savage cuts on the most vulnerable in society.

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