John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The process for negotiating on this, for me anyway, seems to be flawed. There is too much finger-pointing going on between Ministers and Departments. It is the customer, or the patient, at the end that I feel sorry for, because they really do not know whether they are going to get the services or not with the spat that is going on, according to the reports that we hear from the newspapers.