Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

The most important element of this will be the question and answer session, but only 20 minutes is being provided for this. Yesterday, despite many questions from the leaders of both the Labour Party and Fine Gael, the Taoiseach still withheld a commitment to confidence in the management of the HSE. As a student of football, the Taoiseach is putting down a signal about the HSE which should be taken seriously. It is important that the Dáil has a greater opportunity to debate this and to question the Minister about the implications of these reports for the way in which the health service is being developed and managed.

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