Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

To deal again with the first matter, the point I am making is that of course one hopes that the management and staff within the health service can accommodate any person who is an emergency case or where there is a particular issue arising. That is a responsibility for the management and staff to work out themselves. The operational responsibility is there. I am simply making the point that if our attempts to reform the health service are on the basis of trying to solve problems relating to individual cases, we will not actually reform the health service in the way we must. It will be a status quo-plus situation.

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