Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

There is bureaucratic bungling. Ministers can wipe their hands of that until they have to explain to somebody why an operation is cancelled, dental treatment is cancelled, suicide prevention training is cancelled or it is not possible to obtain four hours of home help. The Taoiseach has admitted to me in this House that there is a bureaucratic bulge in the administrative section of the HSE. The Government recognises that it went the wrong way in setting up a structure that is overmanned and over-managed. I will ask the question again. Does the Taoiseach consider that the increase in costs to €666,000 in the Minister for Health and Children's office represents good value?

When will the Government start practising what it preaches? The Taoiseach preaches pay restraint but he is by far and away the highest paid world leader. He does not have a White House, he does not have the yachts, he does not have the aeroplanes——

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