Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Of course. I am aware from different organisations of cost containment by way of various actions that have been taken. That is the factual position. It is a disgrace. It is a crisis and the public now knows about it because we have elevated it here and highlighted the detail. It cannot continue. The Minister accused me of scaring people. This is not scaring people. These are the facts. We must continue and elaborate on the service provision so that the young man in Waterford I spoke about can get a service. We cannot continue the way we are now.

I want to bring it up to the next level. The report done by Dr. Day is excellent and needs full implementation. We know that. When I asked the Minister of State about this he said that he and the Minister, Deputy Harris, intended to establish a new dialogue forum between the relevant Department organisations and so on and to "strengthen the relationship". We heard from Dr. Day when responding to questions from some of my colleagues that since the report was produced, there has been zero dialogue. Is that accurate?