Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

I am shocked at the lack of urgency, almost indifference, the Taoiseach displays, almost as if this situation is normal. The trolley figures are absolutely obscene. We have people suffering and dying on trolleys in our hospitals. The Taoiseach is the leader of this country and has a responsibility for this obscenity, the suffering and the deaths of these people on trolleys in our hospitals over recent years, a position that continues to this day. He absolutely can solve this problem. I ask him to introduce immediately a supplementary budget to tax the 1%, the very wealthy people, the billionaires who own 27.3% of all the wealth in this country. They are not paying their fair share now, nor have they ever done so. I want the Taoiseach to reopen the accident and emergency departments at Nenagh hospital-----

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