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

I would appreciate that. I am not personalising anything but the Minister responsible need not walk out just because we were here. There is only one set of speakers after us and we deserve to be heard. He should listen to us the same as we had to listen to him. He made a speech at the start of the debate more or less saying there is nothing wrong with the health service. Well there is something wrong with it and that was proven when the health service was left €1 billion short, and maybe more. So many weeks after the budget it was decided to give the health service the money it needs and that it had suffered enough. People have died and have been suffering in the meantime. They cannot get home help. There is so much talk about how people will be helped to stay in their homes for as long as they are able and there is talk about how they will be assisted to do that. That is not happening in Kerry. The Government has to wake up to that. It is probably the same around the country but we certainly have a problem in Kerry and I have raised it since June 2022.

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