Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I have total confidence in Professor Drumm and the management of the HSE. It is being suggested that this is a major scandal and somebody did something terribly wrong. That did not happen. If we had not changed the accounting system, we would not even be having this debate. As I stated, I was not asked many questions and people were not screaming in the Dáil last January when the health boards ran an overdraft of €130 million.

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