Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Minister of State of the House and thank the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, for bringing the Hanly report to the House. I wish to put on the record that I was a member of the national task force on medical staffing representing the public interest. At the time I was a lay member and not an elected Senator. I attended in my capacity as a member of the Medical Council on which I represent the lay interest.