Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will finish on this. This is socially and economically irresponsible. The health service is far too important for it to be made a political football.

We in opposition, under the leadership of Deputy Louise O'Reilly, have shown the solutions. The Minister of State has told us that the Government will not oppose those solutions. We want her to implement them and start to get to grips with a crisis that she and her Cabinet colleagues have created for far too long.

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