Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

It is amazing how the Members opposite come in here and talk, despite how bad everything is in reality.

We in the House have been misled by the Government. I request that the Leader arrange a debate on this issue today. The debate we have had thus far on the economy has been based on false premises. Yesterday it emerged that the Minister for Health and Children will claw back vast sums of money from the nursing home funding scheme, A Fair Deal. Fair deal, how are you? What about a fair deal for the elderly who have been hurt by the Government?

I also ask the Deputy Leader, who last year——