Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----under the Minister who is now Fianna Fáil's leader, denied that there were patients on trolleys. Deputy Martin said he did not believe the counts by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. He simply did not believe it, but not believing it did not make the figures go away, just as not believing that the troika was on the way in made it go away. It did not happen. We had an economic collapse in this country and it has left us in a position in which we are now rebuilding this country-----

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