Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
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I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and the officials to the committee. I may be following on from Deputy Donohoe's point.

The plans are very ambitious, which is welcome and the Croke Park agreement is allowing for flexibility and willingness on the part of the staff. One of the issues that was raised with me early in my career as a Deputy was the lack of management, particularly in the health services. We saw how a new management structure in a Galway hospital was able to turn around the hospital using the existing budgets. What is the Minister's sense of the ability of management in the public service to deliver the plan? One can have all the plans but if one does not have the management experience to deliver them, they will not happen.