Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Hear me out a second, please. I am talking about numbers. We have dramatically increased the numbers of people employed. In fact, the HSE could not recruit the numbers of people that were provided for in successive rounds of funding to the health service over the past two to three years.

The Deputy is in opposition. I look at his party's alternative budgets. Every now and then, his party condemns aspects of our budgets. When we look at its particular formulations, however, they do not reflect the realities at all.

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