Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I thank Mr. Green and Professor McCormack. Their statement was very honest and candid. I read it last night before going to bed and was struck by the honesty in it. We read a lot of statements from healthcare professionals appearing before the committee in regard to our health system, but I was particularly struck by our guests' testimony, honesty and candour in respect of this most serious of issues. There is always a system failure when families are obliged to go public regarding their children's surgical needs. We can immediately tell there is a systemic failure where they have to go on the public airwaves to get surgery. What happens then is their child, their loved one, gets the procedure because of the outcry. If that is the system, that is a complete failure. That is no reflection on our guests but it is the system we live in. I cannot blame parents for doing it; I would do the exact same myself. If you have a child who is in constant pain, you will do everything to get that child the operation and procedure. We have to examine that system and fix it.

Mr. Green stated, "Therefore, the real crisis is not in scoliosis; the real crisis is everything else." What is the "everything else"?