Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. I have heard about the problems, but what I am not getting from Mr. Watt are the solutions. I say that because I believe the expectation of this committee, and of the public, is that we appoint people to positions to solve problems and not to be telling us what the problems are all the time. We appoint people to come up with solutions that reflect the fact that we have doubled the health budget and we now have the fourth richest health budget per capitain the world. There is no other way to put it. I thought that statistic referred to Europe. It is worse, however, because it is global; yet we are probably reflective of a Third World service. I again ask Mr. Watt, as the problem-solver and Secretary General of the Department of Health, what actions he has taken or what has he brought to the table? I must ask if he feels that he is in the appropriate position. Will Mr. Watt tell me the actions he has taken that will deliver on the 1 million hours and the 23 million hours it was widely reported-----