Seanad debates

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

3:00 pm

Photo of John CrownJohn Crown (Independent)

Will the Leader request that the Minister come to the House and report to us on the status of the young doctors that we discussed and the number of beds available for the upcoming flu season compared to last year. Is it a desperate warning sign that in the month in which we need medical services the least, they are already breaking all records for under-supply and lack of resources? There is a great line in "Jurassic Park" when the dinosaurs start eating all the people after Dr. Malcolm had warned that this was the inevitable outcome of making them. He says: "Boy, do I hate being right all the time." This is what is happening. The health system is run by the wrong people and it is funded in the wrong way. We need to fix these problems urgently.

Finally, I suggest a new-term resolution for all my colleagues. I ask them to remember that in this House they do not represent any geographical constituency, and to bite their tongues every time they want to start a speech with the phrase "in my constituency".

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