Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----as we allocated resources to the front line. As I say, it is bizarre because the Deputy represents a party that wanted to destroy this country in 2011, pull down the troika agreement and send it packing. We would not have had a single hospital bed or nurse because we would have had nothing to pay them with by the end of 2011 had the Sinn Féin policies been implemented. That is a simple, inescapable fact.

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