Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am calling for an open and frank debate in this House on the treatment of children with spina bifida and scoliosis. Every night on the television news we see these children crying. Parents, meanwhile, are demented with worry. These operations can be done in the UK if there is money for them.

The Taoiseach said he gave €5 million to someone last week when he was questioned by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. Who did he give it to? Where is it? The Taoiseach said that and we want accountability for these poor little children, whose bodies are deteriorating daily. The Taoiseach and the Minister for Health are here in the Chamber and they are responsible for those little children, poor little creatures who deserve to live as well as anybody else. They deserve treatment like everybody else. The Taoiseach is being ambivalent.

The Taoiseach is covering for someone or for some people.

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