Pat Moylan (Fianna Fail)

The Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children will welcome the opportunity to explain to the House in detail the great work she and her Department are doing. We can knock the Department of Health and Children and accident and emergency facilities. However, we must examine the problems. In my experience, more money is now spent on security at accident and emergency wards than is spent on health professionals attending patients. Many of those who telephoned the radio programmes yesterday have much to answer in how they carried on in the past. While many Members speak of trolleys as beds of nails, in my experience there are top class facilities for people who require them at these wards. I look forward to the Tánaiste attending the House.

The day has come for Aer Rianta not to be involved with Great Southern Hotels. There was a day when those hotels were required near airports, but that has now changed.