Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The one thing I have learned in this job is that to rush system reform is to do it badly. In fact, both the project and the system should be well thought out and managed. We are building a system that will respond, but the building of the system will take time because, as the Minister rightly said in his last reply, it is quite difficult to get people through the recruitment process. We are having the same difficulties in disability services as in acute hospitals. In fairness to my parliamentary colleagues, there has never been resistance to the budget for the delivery of services. While I do not have responsibility for the social protection element, as the Deputy knows, in the case of the element for I have responsibility, I have received nothing other than complete support.

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