Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I remind Members that when we raised issues of accountability in this House during the establishment of the HSE, it was those on the other side of the House who said there was too much accountability. We will work with the HSE to deal with this system so that we achieve a modern organisation, properly constituted, with 140,000 staff, and spending €7 billion per annum. We will continue with that process. Nobody will walk away from it.

See this speech in context