Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The Cabinet regularly sits down with the management of the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health and Children and we work through the HSE reform programme to make sure we get best value for our investment in services and resources and that the thousands of additional staff at the level of consultants, junior hospital doctors, nurses and others are used to the best advantage. That is what the Cabinet does.

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