Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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If I am in receipt a complaint from a constituent to the effect that there is no comprehensive service in place to meet the needs of an individual, can I intervene and ask a Minister or Minister of State to ensure the provision of a service that should be provided under the Act or are we being conditioned to accepting the inevitable? In other words, nothing happens. Following on from Deputy Shortall's point about Sláintecare, we need to recognise we have to change how we did things in the past that were not satisfactory. We have to do things better, more effectively and more quickly. In not doing those things, we are not living up to the expectations of Sláintecare.