Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----the establishment of the hospital groups, which will eventually move into hospital trusts, the progress that was eventually made on the national children's hospital, which will go for planning permission as one of the most major pieces of infrastructure in the country for very many years, and of course the difficult enactment of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act.

There are many other areas where progress clearly has been made, but I am the first to admit the challenges that are there for the Department of Health and the HSE. That is an ongoing challenge. I hope that the efforts now being put in place by the Minister for Health and by the Minister of State will regularise the delivery of health systems and health services that will deal with the challenges that are out there in a way that people will get their medical attention as rapidly as possible and based on their needs. It has never been something that one can just deliver overnight, as Deputy Martin is well aware. I suggest that we can get him a more comprehensive response to all of the many issues that he has raised on the four pages.

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