Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am 15 years a politician and this is the first time I have ever been called a liar or accused of lying. Well done to the Deputy on crossing that threshold. Let me be very clear to him because I am not sure what part of this he does not understand. I appreciate he is a politician and it is his job to stoke up fear among the elderly, create hype among the communities and tell them the hospitals will be closing. He said that in his speech. I do not subscribe to that type of politics. It is beneath the Deputy to be frightening the life out of people in the areas concerned.

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