David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is utterly bizarre. This probably is the most chaotic way we have ever funded the health service, when you have that carry on with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, and I am not blaming the Department of Health on this. There are financial controls that can be put in place, there are savings that can be made and there can be differences of opinion but when you have matters of fact that are being disputed, emails which were sent and we have been told the Secretary General did not see them, and then telling us that he was not aware of anything to do with what was recurring or inflation, even contradicting the demand, for me that is fundamentally a bad way to fund the health service and it is really troubling.