David Norris (Independent)

Professor Nelligan cannot be silenced. He stated that too many promises are made regarding sophisticated services regardless of cost only for cutbacks to be made when the bills must be paid. The blame for this is then shifted elsewhere.

We need a universal health service closer to European models and we must stop political point-scoring on the health service. We should adopt a Tallaght strategy, not in the interest of private medicine and profit but in the interest of the delivery of appropriate services to the citizens of this country.