Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The National Treatment Purchase Fund was axed. Anyone waiting over three months was allowed to go on to that and get their procedure, but that is now gone and there is nothing to replace it.

I commend a Member of the other House who has been referred to here, the former Minister of State, Deputy Lucinda Creighton, on the very determined and conviction-driven stand she took because she believed she was right. The manner in which she was treated by her own party was quite disgraceful.