James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Exactly. Deputy Cowen and his party were afraid to count them. They did not want to know - "sweep it under the carpet and say it ain't so". That has always been the Fianna Fáil way, going right back to Charlie Haughey; say it often enough and it is so. That is not the way this Government is going to behave and that is not the way we are going to run this health service. We are open and transparent and we engage with the front line. I warrant that no Minister has been to more hospitals in his first three years than I have been. I continue to engage with the system, I continue to support them and I salute the Herculean effort they make on our behalf every day.

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