Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

No, I was told it was €70,000, but let us see the figures. The ESRI says in its report that the cost of universal health insurance systems, regardless of where they are, is more expensive than systems of universal health care such as a national health service of the type we are proposing.

However, it would appear that in Britain, even with any extras there might be, consultants are not getting paid what they are getting paid here. They are getting paid less but they are not flooding out of the NHS. Why? By God, the Tories have done their best to wreck the NHS but even still, the national health service model is better and more workable and is not the shambolic chaos we now have in our health service. Most doctors are not greedy so-and-sos. As long as they are paid a reasonable amount of money - I cannot see what the Minister is holding up-----

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