Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister very dishonestly portrayed this as something entirely different. People on very modest incomes who have been already put to the pin of their collars to maintain their health insurance because the health service is so unresponsive to older people in particular, will now lose the tax relief which will make health insurance even less affordable for them.

We now have a totally contradictory approach in the Department of Health. What is happening in that Department is completely incoherent.

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