Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We cannot have this. Can the Taoiseach give us an guarantee that the people served by South Tipperary General Hospital and people in the Waterford region will have the services to which they are entitled and that it will not simply be through the efforts of a Minister that a person is treated in a hospital? This is outrageous. The deeds of past Ministers condemned by the Government when it was in opposition pale into insignificance in comparison with it. Those in government are fast learners.

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