Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----the long-term solution to this problem is adequate funding of the social care sector. It is ABC stuff. If it is not safe to send citizens home, then we have to provide the social protections they deserve. That then frees up hospital beds and so on. Why has the Government ignored this building crisis? Why have the warnings from Dr. O'Connell and the HIQA recommendations been set to one side? I put it to the Taoiseach earlier that this is a national emergency.

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