Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It published a reasonably good strategy document and then washed its hands of it and handed over the matter to its erstwhile friends in the Progressive Democrats and allowed them to manage its health policy all the time until it suddenly woke up to it when it ended up in opposition and had to actually address some of these issues. We all know that when the Fianna Fáil-led Government made an attack, which is the word that is so often used, on the over-70s, it was going to remove all cover for all over-70s-----

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