Brendan Ryan (Labour)

The greatest act of fiction I have read in a long time is the Minister of State's remarks on decentralisation, which is not happening.

It is astonishing that there is no longer any mention of waiting lists in Government budgetary expenditure because the Government has abolished the term "waiting lists". It no longer talks about them. The 3,000 beds we were promised have now disappeared off the agenda. In a caring budget that is an astonishing admission.