Mary Moran (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister for a debate that is of the utmost importance. It is to the forefront of everyone's mind. Like my colleagues, I deal with dozens of families and individuals weekly on a variety of topics but I mostly deal with housing and health care. I dealt with a number of people on a variety of issues ranging from surgery, waiting lists, hospital overcrowding and the filling of vacant consultant positions. I do not want to get into the political space, with one side blaming the other, but I agree with Senator John Gilroy when he said it was ironic that Fianna Fáil is bringing forward the motion when much of the problem was inherited by this Government from the previous one.