Sharon Keogan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the attempt at reassurance on where our health service is going to be going forward. However, it does not give me any comfort. The media has been entirely silent on this. If it were not for a few good people with their ears to the ground, all of Ireland would be ignorant of what is happening over on the Continent, where laws are being made which will drastically impact the lives of Irish people. We do not know who is making them, nor do we appear to have any say in the matter. It simply does not sit right with me nor with many other Irish people who expect to be ruled by an Irish Government. I have said in the past that the Government is engaged in a piecemeal parcelling out of Ireland's sovereignty and I stand by that. Will the Minister of State please allow the HSE and the Department the necessary time to react to the WHO changes and opt out of this amendment to Article 59?