Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----saying that the introduction of universal health insurance is not possible in the lifetime of this Government because all these segments have to be put back into place. The White Paper has been published. Obviously, there will be a follow-through on that. Many of those issues that Deputy Martin read out are contingent upon the entire process of universal health insurance - competing insurance groups, people having the right to choose between the insurance companies, the requirement for hospitals to compete with one another on an equal footing, the compensation for public hospitals and so on. It is not a sort of black and white series of issues that one can just put together like that. It is an evolution of an entire series of structural changes in the interests of the people and of the taxpayer so that they might get the very best quality of health service delivered to them as locally as is possible.

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