Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise. The reality is that there is an additional Cabinet meeting today. In an effort to get straight into the meeting, I do not propose to go through my opening statement. We can take it as read. This is my first opportunity to acknowledge in the Official Report the incredible work of our health service staff and management in the HSE in recent days in terms of dealing Storm Ophelia, and managing to keep our hospitals and community health services staff during an extraordinarily difficult time. I wish to acknowledge the heroic efforts of people working in and planning for our health service in recent days. I am very happy to take questions.