Maire Devine (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This morning, the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, said on his way that he was going into the Cabinet to put before it the proposals by the Labour Court that saw the suspension of the industrial action, including this strike and the three days due. I put it to the Minister that it is not really up to the Cabinet to agree or disagree to this. It is up to the 50,000 members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation to agree or disagree. We await their deliberations, which are taking place now, and we will respect the results of those deliberations.

The motion of no confidence arises because of the fiasco or debacle, or whatever we want to call it, ongoing in health. Two Fianna Fáil Deputies, Deputies Cowen and Donnelly, said yesterday that they were misled and that no one could have confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris. However, today again - this is not lost on the public - those in Fianna Fáil are still sitting in their huddle. They should give us an apology because the polls are not right. It is not simply that the polls are not right.