Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I will certainly try to answer that. I apologise to Deputy O’Connor if he did not get an answer. I had understood that it had been followed up on, so I apologise for that. The least a Deputy should expect if he or she is promised an answer is that he or she will get one, regardless of what that answer is. I will therefore take that on the chin. I will make sure that happens. My apologies, if it did not.

Graiguecullen, like Abbeyleix and many other parts of the Cathaoirleach’s area of the world, as well as Cork, Kerry, Wexford and everywhere I have been, all require attention. Sensible choices will be made. We have to make sensible choices in the short term around the use of the buildings we have and how best to use them.

On the issue of regional health areas and accountability, I hope that they will be as independent when they have problems as they will be when they have successes. Yet, despite the narrative of management administration, it is the most significant delayering of the system. They will manage all hospitals, community services and public health services and they will report directly to me. That is a very substantial move forward to a pragmatic sort of approach. They will have to determine what the priority is for them within their area.