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

My point is that in the programme for Government two and a half years ago, this big Bill was put up front, that is, the universal primary care Bill. Had the person responsible for putting that into the programme for Government had a bull's notion about what it involved in terms of detail, substance and complexity, he or she would not have put it in. We have been told in the past two weeks, as the Taoiseach knows, that it is enormously complex and that there are all sorts of legal difficulties and obstacles.

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