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

The nub of the problem we are discussing is who has the power to change things. Whence should we take advice? I do not want to go over old sores, but we were all advised many years ago that we needed to reduce the number of hospital beds and have less capacity. We have less capacity now. We realised that was the wrong decision because it leaves us in a very difficult situation whereby we cannot produce hospital beds as quickly as we would like to. We have a problem in that regard. Regardless of who has the power, how do we prevent going down the road of taking the wrong advice even when it comes high vaulted towers?