Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As I have said, in the health service there are always strains and demands and the question is how best to manage them. The Minister for Health and the HSE are managing as best they can. If the Minister needs to turn somewhere for advice on how to manage better it will not be to Deputy Martin because he, of all people, was not able to manage the health service in the best of financial times, when he was Minister for Health and had plenty of money available. He left a legacy of the HSE and mess that we are doing our best to clean up.

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