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

It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach has published the health service plan today and has deliberately avoided any opportunity for the House in plenary session to debate what by any measure is a substantial Estimate which illustrates how the books were cooked on budget day and how we were deliberately given false figures which did not last a couple of weeks and which went through some verification process. Now we have some figures which, again, are unspecified in the health service plan. My real concern is about the impact it will have on people working on the front line across the country.

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