Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)

I thank Mr. Tierney. We need to move away from a situation where we have junior doctors running around hospitals spending unproductive clinical hours seeking out tests. That is not in the interest of patient service.

Moving on to the voluntary hospitals, I have considerable concerns that we have parallel services operating within our small country. We have the HSE on one hand and we have voluntary hospitals on the other, all effectively working in silos. It does not make any sense to me. I see there is an overpay of €40 million that the Minister will have to supplement now but I note from her statement and from the report we got that there is concern about lack of governance, lack of control and lack of accountability.