Brendan Ryan (Labour)

It was one of Fianna Fail's previous leader who developed the joys of spending public money on expensive restaurants and he told them all about it. Fianna Fáil Senators claim that this threshold of €138 is not a priority. The most fundamental priority is to enable people to attend their GP when they are ill, not when they have money in their pocket. If Fianna Fáil does not understand that this is the fundamental platform for a good health service, it will never reform it. It cannot do it anyway if it does know what people require.