Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The buck stops with him. One cannot get away from that. The one solution is to reverse the cut. I do not think any of us, or any Member on the Government side, wants to see cuts that affect carers or people who are badly incapacitated, such as the people yesterday who made a great effort to come to protest outside Leinster House. The cut is being made for the sake of ¤8 million. If the Government wants to do that then members of Government parties should take responsibility for doing it. They should not blame Tony O?Brien and Ambrose McLoughlin for the cut. The Minister decided on the cut. Fine Gael and the Labour Party decided on the cut. A total of 950,000 home-care hours have been taken out of the system. I will table an amendment to the Order of Business this morning that the Minister for Health-----