Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

For that reason, their deposits have been transferred to other banks. It clear that senior bondholders in those non-functioning banks are in a different category from senior bondholders in the two pillar banks. The Government has to focus on those two banks as part of its decision not to maintain six dysfunctional banks. When the Minister for Finance was in the United States, he made it clear that the Government regards senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank as being in a different category. For that reason, we will pursue the question of sharing responsibility with the ECB early in the autumn.

Every Deputy understands the sensitivity and the personal trauma encountered by families every day when they find it difficult to access quality health care, as close to them as possible, when they need it. Obviously, it is a matter of genuine interest for every Deputy and everyone else in the country. Everybody knows we cannot get to the point we want to reach if changes are not made. The Minister for Health and the Government have to grapple with how those changes can be made, consider what the priorities will be when that has been done and decide how all of it will be funded. A fundamental part of that involves changing the structure of the HSE, which was supposed to provide a world-class health service but has failed to do so. The need for a change in direction is clear when one bears in mind that the leader of Fianna Fáil has objected to the collocation of private hospitals on public hospital lands, which was supposed to be a cornerstone of the previous Government's approach.

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