Seanad debates
Tuesday, 13 May 2003
Health Service: Statements.
I could not get over the debate that took place at Christmas time about the hospitals in Cavan and Monaghan. For a period, a man whose grandchild died tragically became the Minister for Health as far as the media were concerned. The level of debate was appalling. It was the same story two weeks ago with the SARS issue. Every day, I compared what we were hearing about SARS with the headlines of every major newspaper in the English-speaking world. What we were being told here was absolutely hysterical. We need to examine such issues, however, and we need to be clear about them.
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