Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The impact has been enormous. Mention was made by other Deputies about people waiting for cancer smears, bowel screening and prostate cancer. It is all stacking up and people are dying. The figures were given of people dying from all the other ailments. It is one every hour for cancer and 27 a day from stroke and heart disease. There is no talk about it, and some of these are being put down as Covid deaths.

I have one last question for the Minister of State. One day the figures were corrected downward by 500 from about 1,700. They were corrected by the HSE. That was the day the Tánaiste, then the Taoiseach, was out sunning himself in the park on the day before. The figures are back up again and the figures that are being peddled on RTÉ and everywhere else are not true should be corrected. Why perpetrate lies and untruths to spread the fear?

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