Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 November 2003

Book of Estimates 2004: Statements.

 

On the subject of health, it has been the primary political focus not just for the past 18 months since the general election, but for a year or two previously. The Government clearly, and rightly, anticipated in the period before the last general election that it would be the primary political issue and it commissioned the health strategy to assuage an increasingly angry electorate. I have spoken before about the health strategy in this House and elsewhere. It is an imaginative strategy and if it was implemented, it would improve the health service. However, it comes at a considerable cost, which is acknowledged in the strategy.

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