Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is living in cloud cuckoo land. He needs to come down and listen to what I am saying and, more important, to what the people are saying.

The Minister says he is confident that we can deliver on the needs of patients. I am telling him, as the HSE has also stated, that the HSE has assessed patients and has determined that they need this support and care. The HSE says the patients need it but it cannot provide that care because it will go over budget and it cannot go over budget. That is what I am asking about. What does the Minister mean? Does he have some magical way to solve this issue that does not involve people being denied home care support or operations being cancelled or delayed later because the resources are not available?