Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One would have to look at it case by case. Certainly, I am comforted, as the current Minister, that it is a power that I am not sure will ever need to be exercised because the hospital is going to do exactly what it is being set up to do, but it is useful because ultimately there is a mechanism for the State and for the Oireachtas via the Minister to intervene directly if needed.