Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will give an example. When I was Minister of State, I was advised that I could not go to a particular event being run by a pharmaceutical company. That is the disconnect. I am just wondering whether that is the right approach now when we need everyone to be working together. I gave that example from Canada, where a brand-new children's hospital was built, costing $3.6 billion, with everyone buying in while we seem to compartmentalise here, which may not be in the long-term best interests of the country.