I do not agree with Senator Ryan's statement that the electorate was fooled prior to the last general election with regard to health service expenditure. I watched the Minister for Health and Children, accompanied by the new Secretary General of his Department, as they left the Government meeting in Ballymascanlon. They had presented the new health strategy, yet one could see quite clearly from their faces that the €12 billion sought would not be forthcoming. Anyone who really believed the strategy would be implemented was only fooling himself or herself, although it is a good strategy that should be implemented.