Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail)

I thank the Minister of State for her response which, by and large, is reassuring. I hope the fears being generated at local level can be set aside and what the Minister of State has set out will produce positive rather than negative results. I hope that in the coming months the commitments given by the Minister through the HSE on reconfiguration, in particular with regard to acute services, elective surgery and so forth, will be met.