Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I will go back very briefly to my earlier comments when I referred to the health service being crisis driven. I am not sure there is any health service anywhere that is not crisis driven. It was not any reflection on the health service, and I want to make that very clear. When we look at the media we can see the multiple crises that arise every day. That was not a reflection on anybody. It is the nature of running a health service.

On the question of devolution, does Mr. Watt accept that the list of functions must be agreed in terms of what stays at the centre and what is devolved, prior to the recruitment of leads for the RHAs?