Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On that basis, it is incumbent upon all of us to approach the budgetary process in a responsible manner. The Haddington Road agreement suggests that all of us should work in as creative and innovative a fashion as possible to be able to re-engineer the delivery of services such that we do not arrive at the point of requiring to take what the Deputy described as measures of last resort, that is, the point of impacting on front-line services. No one wants to arrive at that point. I am confident that with the process of engagement and collaboration that is ongoing between the HSE and St. Michael's House we will not arrive at that point. I believe the type of management, budgetary and human resources skills available in the upper echelons of management in the St. Michael's House organisation and the HSE will be brought to the best possible use to ensure that the front-line services are maintained while at the same time working within the resources that are allocated to St. Michael's House by the HSE.

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