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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why did the Government close down Tralee?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: If the Minister comes on the bus to Belfast with me next Friday, he will see that it is full of people who are blind or almost blind.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Answer that.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that parliamentary debate may not suit the Deputy.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why did the Government close it down?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the record investment in healthcare in Kerry and Cork does not suit the Deputies' election campaigns-----

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: It does not suit us because it is not happening.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----but it is nonetheless true. No matter how much the Deputies shout at the Government and how many times they come in here with false information, it is a fact.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Tralee has been closed down.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy is making this into another "Hall's Pictorial Weekly".

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is dodging the answer.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: He is not here to answer that particular question. Will the Deputy resume his seat?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a very good programme by the way.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Who will answer it? Is he in charge or not?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: This is not a comedy show.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is not a comedy. Tralee is closed down.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy should resume his seat.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: There is a bus going to Belfast next Friday that will be full of people going blind because of the Minister and his Government.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Will the Deputy please let the Minister respond?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It may not suit the Deputies that there is record investment. Not for a moment am I suggesting that everything is fixed. Deputies Cullinane and Shortall and others have rightly pointed out that we have several years to go but it is undeniable that our healthcare workers, who have been hired in record numbers, are turning this ship around.