Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and Fianna Fáil's proposals, with Deputy Kelleher as health spokesperson, provided only an additional €94 million for health. We will spend multiples of that by the time we get to the end of this year. They also managed to cut €1.5 billion from health between 2008 and 2011 while we held it steady and now that the economy is recovering we are increasing it. A strong economy is a prerequisite for better funded services which is why it is so important that we stay the course with our economic policies and the economy remains strong and is not handed over to those who would wreck it again.

The Sinn Féin plans for 2015 had austerity written all over them. Sinn Féin proposed no increase at all in the Exchequer allocation for health and no provision for GP care for those aged 70 or over. By all means let us have a debate about the health service but let us have an honest one and a grown up one.

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