Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is perfectly entitled to join her colleagues on that side of the House in tabling a motion four months in advance of being able to move it - if she wants to follow the shallow road of popularity.

In any Department there are difficulties and they will continue. The Minister for Health has taken on the task of cleaning up the most unholy departmental mess left behind by an outfit that put together all the health boards and imposed the superstructure of the HSE, which was palpably and patently unworkable. To make these changes in a time of enormous economic challenge is never easy. The cost base of the health system in this country is exceptionally high and this issue will continue to be dealt with. I commend those people working in the health system who have already made serious changes to the way they do their business, in rosters and implementing and maintaining front-line services under difficult circumstances. Nobody denies this.

The people who marched in Castlebar at the weekend-----

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