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

The Taoiseach dismissed all of this. He rebuked all and sundry who questioned it. The IMO said it is one of the biggest cases of political mis-selling in recent history. My question to the Taoiseach is this. How did he get it so wrong and make such a mess of it? One senior Labour Party Minister said this was an astonishing mess. He said the Labour Party was for universal health insurance in principle - as the Labour Party is for everything in principle - but not this mess.

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