Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would have a similar problem, but I realise what the Minister is saying. Working inside the Department, they are looking at it from a different perspective altogether. Is it all right if I use the old Vote system? That system gives me an instant bird's eye view of where we were and where we will go. I believe we should know ourselves where we fell short, if we did. We can see straight away the increases in the salaries, wages and allowances. Presumably they relate to the consultants and medical staff. I hope that the consultants, nurses, GPs and other medical staff, as opposed to administration, take a fair share of the expenditure. People will say that we must have administrators, which is true, but we also must have the practitioners. My question is on the extent to which we have made sufficient provision among those specialists, consultants, GPs and nursing and medical staff.