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Fri 03 Mar 2010New Zealand trip an 'abuse'
MINISTER FOR HEALTH Mary Harney’s two-week trip to New Zealand has been described as an “abuse” of the system where Ministers represent Ireland abroad for St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore made the allegation during ill-tempered exchanges in the Dáil about the Minister’s absence during the controversy over the failure to review 57,000 X-rays and reports that thousands of letters of referral from GPs to consultants at the hospital were unopened.
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