Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, it is not ludicrous. I am just asking that when the Deputy talks to the people at home, she gives them the facts. The HSE specifically asked Sinn Féin not to do what it did today in comparing the data. That is the first point.

The second point is that wait times and cancellations and how long it takes to see a doctor are all interlinked. What I want people at home, most particularly parents of children with cancer, to know is that they live in a country where the number of people working to look after their children is increasing, where the number of beds available for their children's care is increasing and where the budget for the health service to support their children-----

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