Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Minister of State. I smile when I hear Senator Ryan talk about systems failures under the Government. Every time Fianna Fáil is in power there seem to be systems failures. The Senator is right in saying people lie behind such failures, a point he made recently on the Order of Business. If so many Fianna Fáil Governments have been in power, as he says, that is democracy. It is the people voting Fianna Fáil into power. The systems failures happened during the term of office of successive Governments, including those in which his party participated. It was particularly the case in respect of the Travers report on nursing home charges. The Senator should shoulder some of the responsibility and not lay all of the blame on the parties in government.