Since returning to office, the Minister has increased charges for patients attending accident and emergemcy units without a doctor's letter and raised the thresholds for the drug refund scheme. Why, when the number of care staff in most of our health boards runs into hundreds, do the administrative staffs number thousands? Our health boards have chief executive officers, deputy chief executive officers, assistant chief executive officers, administrators of one kind of another, Irish officers, yet they cannot administer community services and initiatives because of shortfalls in certain areas. I plead with the Minister to look after the sick and elderly in society and take action to ensure our current problems do not deteriorate further.