Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy can answer that herself. She can look at history. This is to expand new ranges of services, allowing the entity itself to be creative, to modernise and to be progressive, if it so wishes. That is all we are doing. We are not compelling it to borrow money. We are not instructing it; we are only saying if the entity decides and if it clears the checks and balances in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which are significant by any standard, through the Department of Health and the HSE, it can. That is all we are doing here: allowing that in legislation.