In one of his statements, the Minister said: "The Department of Health and Children will be restructured to ensure improved policy development and oversight". That is paralleled by what is happening in the Department of Education and Science, which involves farming out various sections of the Department. For example, the examinations section was moved out but it has not worked well. In a recent statement in this House the Minister used the very same clichés – that we will have a new Department of Education and Science whose sole responsibility in future will be – in exactly the same words –"policy development and oversight". Where is the responsibility in that regard? Has the Minister taken such a lambasting because of his failure, with his departmental officials, in the delivery of an accessible service to the people. Does he now propose to stand back and let somebody else take the flak because it is too much of a hot potato for him to handle? If any Minister, regardless of his or her ability, decides to drop the hot potato and run for shelter, we will have nothing to look forward to except more disaster and failure in the health services.