We are all taxpayers and potential patients. Almost all the reports I have received about the health service over the past ten years from family and people in the community, whether to do with the public health service or VHI type treatment, have been good. The vast majority of what goes on in the service is good and people are satisfied. We get to hear about the difficulties but that sometimes gives a say to those who are the majority and have limited contact with the service. They give a wholly distorted view in order that when somebody goes into hospital, they are pleasantly surprised that it is not the disaster the media have told them to expect.