Seanad debates
Wednesday, 26 March 2003
Health Services: Motion.
The myth that there is no money to do things now is precisely that. If I needed to do an emergency job on my house, it would not stop me sending my children to the doctor. I would borrow the money to pay for it. That is what sensible people do. The idea of funding a massive infrastructure programme out of current revenue is ideological nonsense, carried on by a Minister for Finance who is out of control. He leaves the country to follow the racing at Cheltenham and returns to tell us we are overspending. This is extraordinarily and intellectually offensive. This is the fundamental problem with this debate. The Government refuses to engage with the issue and, instead, produces a collection of nonsensical claims that does no service to itself or to this House.
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