Jimmy Harte (Labour) | Oireachtas source

On the section, respite care is very important for a family who needs it. Equally the whole package is important to the family. To protect the whole package, if reductions in some parts are needed we have to move with them. I want to be judged on this not tomorrow or next weekend but in two or five years time when the public will judge us and say that this was a good Government because Fine Gael and Labour in the past have cleaned up the mess that the people opposite created. I am ashamed to say it but we are now doing it again.