Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

People will be offered competing insurance. It is a privatised version of the health service, with insurance companies deciding what people can have. They will purchase the health care and will have control over the hospitals. I do not accept the HSE is the failure which everyone paints it to be. At the end of the day, the HSE is a public health service purchasing public health care for the public good. The Government proposes to change this. It will be regrettable, if it ever happens.