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

We have heard comparisons made with the UK, Scotland, France, Germany, and almost every place across the globe in the last couple of years. We have been compared with New York, Sydney and so on and so forth. They are all having their problems now. They are all having the same issues we are having but they are having them later. We had these starting off a couple of years ago. We should have solved those problems by now. Are we paying enough? I am not talking so much about competing on a worldwide basis but to ensure that the various services provided by the HSE to the general public are sufficient to attract a sufficient number of people to fill the positions at any given time from the domestic market.