Everybody wants a hospital on every street corner and a full service general hospital within a taxi ride to their front door. Politicians are feeding such expectations. Every time there is a row on a health board, the politicians always take the populist view. People may say that it is easy for me to say this because I am not a member of a health board, but that is what I strongly believe. I am not saying there are not individual members of health boards who happen to be elected representatives and who may make huge contributions. However, they do not have to be elected representatives to make a contribution. Very often their sense of independence, integrity, clear judgment and focus might well be distorted and perverted by the fact that they have to represent people in a particular area. This should not be taken as any diminution of political representatives; people know my views on that. In this instance, however, it is not necessary.