James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

Like me, he would agree that value for money is at the core of this issue. It is how one does one's business.

I want to return to the HSE and its well demonstrated bully-boy tactics. I would like to know how the Minister views the HSE's intention to boycott Newstalk Radio because it has pursued it on issues of public interest. It becomes clearer and clearer that the HSE is out of control, which is what we all feel with regard to this monster the Minister has created. However, when we reflect on what the HSE said at the joint committee, we might wonder if it is actually out of control. Perhaps it is operating directly as the Minister wishes, under her instruction, and perhaps this is her view of how industrial relations should be conducted and her view of how a democracy should operate, through censorship of national radio by threat by proxy.

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