David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will quote further from the briefing note because the Minister comes in for criticism, time and again. The note states that a key theme at Cabinet committee was the lack of a culture of financial control in the acute hospitals and the lack of a commitment by the Minister for Health to constructively address the spending problems. That is a real critique of the Minister's performance. I will share more examples but that was the first criticism of the Minister. From the perspective of the Department of public expenditure and reform, the Minister and the HSE were failing to put in place spending controls. Does the Minister accept that was a failing on his part?