Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have a general question. What effort has been made in hospitals to prevent waste of supplies and equipment and so on? When I discuss this with nurses working in hospitals, they regularly refer to packages being opened but only one or two of the contents being used, while the rest are effectively thrown out in the end. I am unsure to what extent that is a major problem but it strikes me from the comments I have heard that there is considerable waste in that regard. Can anything be done to improve that situation?