Jimmy Harte (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I ask that the Minister be invited to come into the House to discuss developments. The health service in the north west and in Donegal was decimated during the good times. Members should remember this was not at a time when there were cuts. Some 15,000 people took to the streets of Letterkenny campaigning for cancer services and the then Fianna Fail and Green Party Government had to be dragged to the table to even discuss it. The people in Donegal took matters into their own hands. This happened in years when there was spending but Donegal was ignored by Senator O'Brien's current leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, when he was Minister and we all know he issued 140 or 150 reports which are still lying in the Department. The question on this should put to the former Minister, Deputy Martin.