The party's health spokes-person Liz McManus accused ministers of putting sick people at risk by insisting on "a free market approach at all costs".
In the Labour Party, freedom really is a terrible, terrible thing.
But I am feeling cynically flippant this morning, so I note two other little bits. One appears later in the same piece where McManus is quoted as saying:
For every €100 million invested the Irish people will contribute €40 million, a gift from a government that cannot deliver to low income families the 200,000 medical cards it promised, but has no difficulty subsidising the fat cats.
Comments from Labour about "fat cats" are pretty rich. This is the party that, when last in power, dropped all university tuition fees, a massive transfer of wealth to the richer parts of Ireland. The other is in a different story, reporting on a survey saying that women in labor prefer private medical care. See, even the women in labor don't agree with Labour.
Sorry about that. I'll try to refrain from pathetically bad puns in the future.
