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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.

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

Michael Healy-Rae: Why were they protesting in Tralee at 1 o'clock today?

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

Stephen Donnelly: In my constituency and the Deputies' constituencies, they are turning it around.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: They are not at fault at all. The Minister is at fault.

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

Stephen Donnelly: They are reducing waiting times and rolling out new services.

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

Michael Collins: The only ship that is turning is the Titanic.

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

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputies can shout as much as they like-----

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I am not shouting at all.

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

Stephen Donnelly: -----but it will not take from the improvements that healthcare workers are making in their constituencies and mine.

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

Michael Healy-Rae: They protested outside the hospital in Tralee at 1 o'clock today. Why did they do that?

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

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification-----

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, the Deputy does not need to clarify anything.