Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).
If one wanted to criticise the boards, one should have done so when they were set up. That was a different time and we have moved on since then. In 1997 when Deputy Martin was Minister for Education and Science he said the proposal to set up education boards would cost £50 million. He thought it better not to establish them and I agreed with him. It is like the tourist looking for directions in Kerry and being told by the Kerry man that if he were going where the tourist wanted to go, he would not start from that particular point. It is the same with the health boards. I pay tribute to the great work they have done over the years.
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