Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I read this in detail and I have a number of questions relating to the figures that have been provided. As a follow-up on that, I will prepare some questions to the HSE. I accept the bona fides of the HSE in what it sent us. However, the real issue here is not the figures. There are two issues. The first is that the figures that have been quoted publicly in HSE forums versus the figures that are quoted here. This is the first time these figures have ever been quoted - I have never come across them. They do not correlate with what has been told to HSE forums, figures which have been publicly spoken about and received in the media. I will ask questions on that.

The second issue is more interesting. When the HSE in this response outlines the type of services that were being made available as a result of the capital expenditure, by and large, they do not exist. If the volume of capital spending is accurate - I cannot doubt the bona fides of what has been written here - why are the services, as a result of both capital expenditures of significant money, not in place? I visited this hospital with the current Minister and there was not a single patient there. Those services are not there or at least are not working to the level of which the capital expenditure would justify.