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Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Listening to the contributions of Deputy Kelleher et al., I felt it was a bit like the parishioner who at the beginning of Holy Week went to the sacrament of reconciliation but, not having the courage to go in private to the confessional, went for the open absolution instead to purge himself of his sins. I am sorry Deputy Martin is not present tonight, because he was the architect of much of...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The sum total of the Fianna Fáil health policy amounts to just 244 words tonight criticising a budget and service plan that delivers more for health than Fianna Fáil ever dared consider. I accept the motion is not down to Deputy Kelleher, but it is the continuation of the Punch and Judy theme Deputy Martin promised to get rid of. However, he constantly resorts to that tactic to...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Which is part of a two-term policy.

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We have committed to abolishing the HSE. We have begun the process of reform but we have always said that reform will take time. It has not been abandoned, as Deputy Kelleher knows, and the Future Health strategy framework is the blueprint for that. Let us look at what the Government has done in its time in office in terms of the clinical programmes and in terms of capital. Today, we were...