Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is the responsibility of the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White. He has pointed out that, having looked at the structure he had to deal with on his appointment, he decided that he would prefer to look at this scheme in its entirety and then start the process rather than do it in sections. The latter approach would require the setting up of particular administrative operations, a legal base and medical personnel, which would have to be duplicated repeatedly before we would get an effective system.

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