It is amusing that the motion was raised by the Labour Party because during the financial crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s Ireland did not have the funds to create the world class health service we all deserve. By the mid-1990s, however, the money was certainly available. The Labour Party was then in government but failed to put money into cutting waiting lists and providing new nurse training places or to provide the funding which the health service desperately needed. As everybody knows, there are necessary run-in times in the health sector. It takes years to train doctors and nurses, build wards and put programmes in place. Had Fine Gael and the Labour Party started the job of reforming the health service in the mid-1990s our problems today would be greatly reduced.