Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Indeed. It arises in relation to health issues. The only reason I responded to the question of what people said back then was that most of what Senator MacSharry has said - a good proportion of his speech on Second Stage and again today, as well as of the contribution of Senator Cullinane - was all about what people had said previously. This is a Parliament. Members are perfectly entitled to raise what people said in the past and to ask questions. No one objects to that. The point is that we come to expect something a little bit more than that in terms of an argument, but we hear less and less - particularly, I am sorry to say, from Senator MacSharry. If the only case against the Government is that what we are doing is not what we said would do, it ends up being quite thin. I am still waiting for a health policy.