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

There were three fraudulent budgets for health over three years. The Government has now deliberately approved a budget that is €100 million short for acute hospitals. That will mean more overcrowding in hospitals, longer waiting times and higher waiting lists in 2016. The Taoiseach is not facing up to the reality that he is consistently underfunding health. He cannot come to the House and talk about the need for reform, because he promised reform for five years under the name of universal health insurance and ditched it at the 11th hour. The five-point plan has become a three-step plan because the Dutch model has been dropped unceremoniously from the Taoiseach's platform. He is afraid even to talk about health in public. All people will hear about for the next while is the strength of the economy.

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