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

I understand the Department must have its procedures - I get that - but I have to say sometimes the Department does not help its own cause with its groups and committees, etc. I am perfectly willing to accept that information is publicly available but, as a public representative who has a small degree of experience dealing with the health service, it should be available to me and I cannot find it. When I cannot find information like that, which is referenced in documentation and obviously exists in some form, that naturally raises the question as to what the Department does not want me to know. There might be nothing to see here but, if there is nothing to see, the Department should just publish it. We all know that cuts are coming to the services for the people who need them in our communities. We want to know where those cuts will come and what will be their impact. If this is being monitored on an ongoing basis, and the Department has oversight, that information should be shared.