Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy will forgive me but that is a difficult question because although he has given me the papers in question, I have not read them. He will appreciate that I want to read them in their totality rather than responding to individual lines. I expect the Department for public expenditure and reform to constantly agitate for more and more cost controls. That is part of the job of that Department. Part of my job is to try to achieve those cost controls while protecting patient services.