Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

We will wait for Tweedledum and Tweedledee later. I will confine my remarks to the motion before the House this evening. I will give the Minister the due respect he deserves when he makes his personal statement this evening and clarifies the issues about which people are concerned.

The governance issue has been raised. Price-referencing, generic substitution and agency staff are issues that have been highlighted as being aspirational by Mr. Cathal Magee, who is the Accounting Officer of the HSE. He has indicated that at best, they formed an "unrealistic target".

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