James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When it comes to Ladybird books, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee, we all know to whom we should refer.

The reality here is that we are undertaking a sea change in the way we provide care and how we fund it. It is a fundamental shift, moving from hospital-based care to a primary care model and from a tax-based system to an insurance-based system under which those who cannot afford all of the cost are subsidised and those who cannot afford it at all will be paid for by the State, but everybody will be treated equally. There are some who would like to see a continuation of the old ways, with a virtual health service for those who cannot afford to pay for it and the ability to queue-jump and have the service one wants if one can afford it. That is not the way to run an egalitarian society or one in which everyone is equally cherished regardless of his or her income.

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