Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 March 2003

People have benefited more from sustained funding in the past four years than in the lifetime of any Government. Staff numbers have increased from 68,000 to 96,000. I would not necessarily hail that as one of the greatest feats in the world because some of those staff should never have been appointed in the first place. A small percentage of them, not all, comprise another layer of bureaucracy in the health system and I deal with them on a daily basis. I am delighted to see that the new health structure is being examined with a view to changing it. Some staff are falling over each another trying to find positive things to do.

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