Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Durkan suggested and, I suspect, most people would agree, few institutions need a fundamental re-organisation of how they operate as badly as the HSE. It has no credibility in the eyes of the wider public or the health service's users. However, it is important to qualify this statement. There is an almost universal phenomenon in which everyone who engages with the health service believes its nurses, doctors and other front-line staff are wonderful, yet the way in which the system is organised is a nightmare. As I am sure other Deputies have pointed out, anything I say is not a criticism of the heroic front-line staff in the health service, be they ambulance drivers, nurses, medical practitioners or so on. They all do a wonderful job under difficult circumstances and in a dysfunctional structure.

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