Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and maybe none. There is not much sense in producing a report of that nature, which is deemed to be integral to the running of the health service in future and taking into account all of the issues that we have dealt with and having received complaints about and going to all that trouble if, within the system, those directly involved in the front line say they do not know about it, as the Government or somebody else has produced it and it is not ours. It is, in fact, and is something that is there for health delivery services to take on board and deliver upon.

The reason I am labouring this point - I have stated that this was my last question - is that we cannot continue forever in this country spending more and more money. Dr. Doyle has said that the money is spent in the wrong places. I am quite certain that if I went in to examine the health services in the morning, I would find 50 people, at least, who would say that the money is being spent in the wrong place and there would be 50 different places.

I would like to see a greater interest in the practitioners becoming involved and having a pride in the delivery of the public health services. We have lacked that for quite a long time in this country and it is in everybody's interest that we take it up. Otherwise, we would be better off outsourcing it entirely and allowing somebody else to provide the services elsewhere because we cannot do it ourselves. There is no good in saying that we cannot do anything. We are highly priced and supposed to be efficient, effective and highly qualified. We need to be delivering.