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

These are shocking cases. No mother should have to go on "Liveline" to highlight such a case, which has shocked many people. Will the Taoiseach ensure that the Government provides the requisite resources to enable Liam Mac An tSaoi and other children in similar situations to return home this Christmas? Will the Taoiseach change his policy direction on the health service? He is ploughing ahead with a €666 million cut that it simply cannot take. I meet workers at all levels of the health service around the country who are telling us that the system is at breaking point. Health staff at every level, from clerical officers to frontline workers, are saying that morale has never been lower and they are at their wit's end. It is therefore time for a change of policy on the health service because it can take no more.

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