Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle) | Oireachtas source

In welcoming the Minister of State tonight and saying we are grateful to you for being here, as it is inordinately late that we are discussing this matter, it might be no harm at this early stage in the process to communicate to the Department of Health that there will be a very unhappy Dáil if the Department does in this Dáil what it did in the last and sends in Ministers of State to deal with issues for which they do not have delegated responsibility.

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