Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Harkin-Kelly for her presentation. I will not refer to morale and so forth, because we are hearing about that repeatedly. She said people were not being treated with respect within the system. Is it that toxic?

She also mentioned managers not having access to budgets and so on.

Surely a person buying a car or building a house knows exactly how much money they have or how much they can play with. I find it extremely worrying that people have no control over expenditure and ask her to elaborate on the matter.

Everything else has been touched on. We all probably have pains in our heads from hearing how bad morale is in the health system.