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No, no, no, I didn't.

And I've listened back to it.

And I mean, she's talking out both sides of her mouth.

Of course, it's like mom and apple pie.

It will be desirable that we do not need health insurance.

48% of Irish people today and rising

are with health insurance companies.

They're paying a lot of money that an awful lot of them don't have.

And it's going up all the time, as we know.

Now, why do people do that?

Just ask yourself, why are you going to the sports clinic, which I heard you saying yesterday?

You're going there because you want to get the care you choose.

So in the last few weeks, women have been pilloried for this.

It's as if somehow or other, and I've written to Vincent O'Toole about it, I think it's appalling the way he spoke about women being too posh to push.

Seven people in my family were born in Mount Carmel, and it was an absolute amazing, fabulous experience.

And most of my friends at the time, who had no money in the 80s, had to scrape money together.

But I tell you what, it was a wonderful experience.

And the idea that you take that away from one group of the population, there's no other group in society today that are barred from private choice.

And exactly what the Minister said.

I mean, she's right to focus on it.