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

Moreover, I do not believe these changes will be adequate to deal with this crisis because the fundamental objectives of Government health policy are not meeting. On the one hand, the Government seeks universal mandatory health insurance but, on the other, it is implementing policies that are driving people out of the market, such is the incoherence of the policy approach. Very few people on the Government side appear to have confidence in the Minister's capacity to resolve this. I do not know why the Government should believe that anybody else outside of Government or the realm of Government backbenchers should have some confidence.

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