Seanad debates

Tuesday, 13 May 2003

I had a discussion recently with three senior trades unionists, none of whom voted, or will vote, for either of the current Government parties because that is not their colour. They concluded that if somebody in Government had come to them in 1997 and offered to double investment in the health service and increase the number of health service personnel by a figure equal to the current total Civil Service they would have thought they were going to be in clover. The real question, however, is why the health service is not working. I do not know but we will not get to the bottom of it simply by political parties telling each other that the Minister should resign – the same thing that was said about the former Ministers, Barry Desmond, Michael Noonan and Brian Cowen. That is not the answer.

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