Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the management issue, the hospitals I am talking about are not small hospitals. If something has gone on for 18 years I am concerned about the fact that no action has been taken. I accept that over the past five to six years it has been difficult to do that but it needs to be given priority. It cannot be allowed to continue that there is a lack of continuity.

On orthopaedic surgery and the treatment purchase fund, it is a huge waste in that if someone is on private health insurance and someone else who is waiting on the public health system who is waiting then they are being pushed even further back. Have we put in place any checks and balances to try to deal with that issue?