I feared for economical survival of State, says Gilmore

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that he feared for the financial survival of the state in the early days of the coalition government.

The Labour leader also said that plans for universal health insurance by the embattled health minister were progressing and that the new system would benefit patients.

Speaking in Glenties, Co Donegal, at the MacGill Summer School, he also said now was the time for the country to break out of the cycle of economic crises to safeguard the future for Ireland’s children.