Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In fact, it is. If the Chairman does not mind bearing with me for one second, I am not being critical at all. The reason I was sad is that we have nearly 100,000 people, who Mr. O'Brien represents so ably, delivering what are, in the main, quality services. Mr. O'Brien is correct that we get beaten up 100% of the time for the 2% of the time that people make mistakes. While we do not always get it right for whatever reasons - be they related to functional or human error - it was sad to hear that Mr. O'Brien thinks we have no vision or plan or future. Can Mr. O'Brien describe to me the other context of that? Ms Day is here today and we have had people in before Mr. O'Brien this morning talking about the reparations programmes we have around our new hospital groupings, the delivery of primary care and our aspirations to service and remove some of the strain on hospitals by placing delivery in a primary care setting. Clinical programmes are delivering nationally and our GP services are delivering a plan. All of that represents a vision for the future of health care. While I appreciate that he might be talking long term and about 20 to 25 years in the future, Mr. O'Brien might explain to me the context of how he was feeling when he said what he said.