Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My instinct is to ask the Taoiseach - it will be ruled out of order, but I will ask him anyway - whether the committee considered any of those matters. The Taoiseach once talked, famously, about having a report card. As we approach the end of the year, if this committee had a report card, how would he mark it up? No free GP care for all, no end to prescription charges, no universal health insurance, no abolition of the HSE, no end to trolley waits and no end to two-tier waiting lists. Behind those statistics are, as I raised last week, the case of Denise and Jake Tuohy or Orlaith, a five week old baby girl. I am sure every Teachta Dála could raise equally poignant cases. I have already said to the Taoiseach previously in this type of discussion that I am not against this type of focused approach on co-ordinating the necessary priority at any given time, but surely this Cabinet committee on health, in its eight meetings, has not justified its own existence?

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