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"Mr President, it is a very opportune time to have this debate, in particular for my constituents and the people of my home county. When it comes to the sustainability of the Irish Health Service it is quite clear that it is not sustainable, and one of the reasons is because we are haemorrhaging money paying for the collapse of a banking system, a system that collapsed but for which we – and not the speculators – paid the price. EUR 11 million is all that is needed in funding to keep the 90 residents in place at this home that helps our health system, but we cannot afford to pay for it.
I heard today Mr Juncker say that we made sure taxpayers never again have to pay for the greed of financial speculators. Well that is wonderful, Mr Juncker, but the reality is that people in Ireland are still paying for this every day, and the EUR 11 million that the people of Roscommon need, instead of it going to healthcare, well last year EUR one billion was borrowed and destroyed, and Ireland got nothing for it. This year EUR 500 million will be destroyed and we will get nothing for it.
How can you have a sustainable healthcare system when the taxation that is paid for our health and for our education is spent on paying back a debt that was never ours? In 2016, we will have to pay EUR 500 million a year again and burn it, same in 2017, same in 2018. How the hell can that be sustainable? I thought you were here to help us. You are haemorrhaging us. You are destroying us. You are killing us."@en1
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