Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

While I am not familiar with the first issue mentioned by the Deputy, I do recall the second one. As it happens, we have a report on the control over the supply of high-tech drugs and medicines, which is through community pharmacies. Consequently, there will be an opportunity to discuss that and certainly to raise that second issue. More generally over the years, we have repeatedly raised concerns in respect of procurement in the HSE. It is constant. There is a significant systemic problem and last year we produced a report on that, which was discussed. It raised issues about not tendering and other matters related to procurement. There is a limit to what we can do. The only option we have is to keep reporting it until change happens.