Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

——but I do not believe we ever controlled anything. There is a big difference.

We should not knock Professor Drumm. We should give the Health Service Executive room and time to carry out the good work that it is about to do. We need to be patient. We have 18 months to go to a general election. The Senators opposite will jump up and down plenty of times between now and then but we will wait until we see their manifesto for Government before we start talking about the real policy we all have up our sleeves.