Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is also recruitment. I asked about this the last day and, without being disrespectful to those who were here the last day, they were probably not the right people to speak to us about recruitment. A flow chart was required of the end-to-end process relating to recruitment, how that recruitment takes place and how each stakeholder comes into the recruitment process. I am not discounting the comments of the witness regarding resources, and this is a particularly demand-led service, but I am not saying there are no failings in the system either. Let us call it out. It is not as if everything in the system is perfect either. We have started to turn that over here. I do not want it to go out that this is just about resources. There are systems failures happening as well and we must try to identify and fix them together. That is the reason for the robust questioning.

We need to know about the financing so we know where we are to spend the money. When I walk into the office of the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and ask him or anybody else how much is being spent on specialties, I should be able to get the figure. In the private sector a button can be pushed and a report can be run in order to get such figures. It is a massive frustration on our side, particularly when we see the likes of the childcare service rolling out a new information technology system. It is a massive bugbear.