Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is especially disappointing that she cited as a reason for her departure the delay in implementing the promise in the programme for Government for a universal single-tier health service and access to primary health care and medical services based on need rather than income. This is a key commitment and as I noted in a previous comment in the House, it is very important that this Government can deliver on its promise to deliver radical reform of the health care system. That reform was singularly lacking under the 14 previous years of prosperity, when a previous Government presided over a deepening inequality in the health service, particularly with the doomed co-location plans.

Whoever takes on the role of Minister of State in the Department of Health with responsibility for primary health care-----