Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On that point, the HSE appeared to put a bit of distance between itself and the Department on that decision. My memory of it is that the executive said it was given this target. Someone should have sat down with the HSE to determine if the target was realistic, which we know now was not the case, and how the HSE was going to reach it. Where was it going to find those savings? It is not acceptable to just give the executive a savings target without figuring out how to help it to achieve it or even if the target is realistic.