Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Sinn Féin for the opportunity to discuss this very timely and necessary motion. If we do not address its content the crisis in our health service will accelerate. We all know the important role nurses play in our society. I am not going to reiterate those points and patronise those people because they do not want a pat on the head. They need a reversal of the policies of austerity, which have been to no-one's benefit since 2012. It was a bit ironic listening to the former Labour Party Minister who was part of that process telling us now how it was all so wrong.

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