Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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There is delivering within budget and making savings with reference to people who are vulnerable and deserve a service as of right and then there is any amount of money available for consultants, reports or rented buildings. I am not asking the officials to spend in a way that is open-ended. I shall ask my original question again. What role, if any, have the witnesses played in saying the following to the Government? If we want to provide a health service as a right and do not want to see 208 people being on a waiting list, of whom the vast majority have been waiting for over 12 months, we need a different model. Have the witnesses fed this view back to the Government, or is it simply about managing the budget and that people who are waiting for support are collateral damage?