Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-20
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

Hyperbole and polemic are some of the Deputy's great strengths but there comes a time to stop. No one can say that we are doing "Covid on the cheap". The health service received a €4 billion allocation in the budget, that is, €2 billion for Covid-19 and €2 billion to permanently embed improvements into the service. That is not Covid on the cheap. We have built the testing and tracing capacities from zero-----

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Sitting date: 2020-10-20