Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In terms of managing this issue, if the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, had come to me earlier on the matter, I would have asked him to quantify the scale of the issue and to set out what could be done to reduce it further. This was what he was doing throughout that period. If I had been aware of it at an earlier point, I would have asked him to take the actions he was undertaking during that time. I became heavily engaged with the Minister and the Department for Health as soon as I became aware of the issue and the nature of it.