Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I said to Deputy Fitzmaurice, he fled from the Department of Health and Children as soon as he got a chance.

The Government has made substantially more money available for next year than for 2015. There are greater facilities, additional nurses, additional consultants and additional personnel. In the sense of management, everybody clearly has an opportunity to assist in meeting this particular challenge. It does not just rest with the nurses in the accident and emergency departments, whom one will never see standing around talking because they are so busy dealing with the numbers coming through. I hope the emergency task force set up by the Minister, involving the director general of the HSE and the secretary general of the INMO, will continue to implement that plan because it is working and is clearly paying dividends. I am sorry about the good lady that the Deputy mentioned, but it is not for me to comment on individual cases. I know the Deputy understands that.

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