Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Coming back to Deputy Conway's fundamental point, why is that the case given the amount of money we are investing, the fact we have established a task force and that the HSE and Minister have been involved with the various stakeholders? Yesterday the Minister met the INMO in regard to this issue. Are there obstructionist policies being implemented somewhere of which we are not aware? Notwithstanding the fact that we have taken out some beds, we have put more back in and we are investing considerable sums of money. It might not be for Mr. O'Brien to answer Deputy Conway's point but I contend that since he is talking about playing on grass and bearing in mind that we are not doing too well where I come from, the ground hurling indicates we are investing money and making resources available. Why are they not having the desired effect?