Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

We cannot do that. I have no expertise in this area but I have spoken to quite a few people in other sectors who have and they all say that we need to centralise before we devolve and know what we have in place. For Professor Drumm or the board of the HSE to decide before the organisation was put together who they would get rid of would not have made sense. Some people, like CEOs, went because we abolished their jobs by law——

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