Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The emotional terrorism is happening on the Minister's watch every day in our hospitals. People cannot sleep because they are on trolleys beside vending machines and there are people walking up and down in the middle of the night. If this were happening in a war, the Government would be brought to the Hague for war crimes on the basis of depriving people of their sleep. They are not getting care in the hospitals. The Minister can smile all he likes. He is more interested in telling the members of the National Association of General Practitioners, without even consulting them, that they will have to be on the front line in providing abortion services here. I repeat that as far as I am concerned, the Minister is a puppet and a damn good one.

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