Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Let me correct a number of issues of fact. First, the Labour Party position on universal health insurance, which was initially published in 2001, provided for and proposed that there should be a number of health insurers which would be part of universal health insurance, one of which would be a public service provider. That was and is the position of the Labour Party in regard to universal health insurance.

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