Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In a functioning democracy, the Minister responsible for 700,000 people on waiting lists, 100,000 people on hospital trolleys, 2,500 people waiting for their first mental health clinician meeting, a GP service that is grinding to a halt around the country, diminishing conditions for staff right through the service and a reduction in capacity in the system would be gone. In a functional democracy, a person who poured €500 million into a hole under the national children's hospital would be fired. If a Minister withheld information from his Cabinet colleagues for months, he or she would be considered not fit for government. Ireland is not a functional democracy. It is a land in which taxpayer money is treated as "funny money" which has no real value, and where nobody is ever held to account. If one votes for Fianna Fáil one gets Fine Gael. Brexit is not the reason Fianna Fáil is shirking from declaring no confidence in the Minister. Deputy Micheál Martin is afraid of making decisions, he is afraid of a general election, and he is putting his seat before the good of this country.

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