David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept that but can Mr. Watt understand the position from our perspective? We are sitting here today and we have the Minister and the Secretary General of the Department in. We have had six resignations associated with Sláintecare, including the former executive director, the chairperson of the board, and the two of the most senior people tasked with responsibility for delivering Sláintecare. We have also had a number of other resignations from the advisory committee, and, as I said earlier, the chairman of the South/South West Hospital Group. In fairness, there is a standing invitation to most of those individuals to come before this committee also.

Yet, we are led to believe that the Minister had no idea that there were any problems with Sláintecare or these individuals' views on Sláintecare and that there was no difference or disagreement between Mr. Watt, the Department of Health, and any of these individuals, and that is seems they have resigned for no reason whatsoever. It is hard to comprehend that there was no sense of disagreement that would have led to those resignations because we have received some glimpse of some of what they have said, particularly from Professor Keane and we want to hear from the others.

From where I am sitting, can Mr. Watt understand how difficult it is for me to comprehend how we have these resignations on the one hand but there is nothing to see here from Mr. Watt and from the Minister on the other hand?