Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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It is in terms of overall management. The consultants are, some would say, the most powerful group within a hospital, and we have a shortage of them. I do not want to be hard on consultants because they do a very difficult job and they are highly skilled. We and our families are all dependent on them. In terms of the important management decisions, however, is it Mr. Mulvany's sense that consultants in this State have a greater influence or greater control over how hospitals are run than they should have? Is that a concern of his?