Frank Feighan (Fine Gael)

No senior worker or administrative staff member who is responsible for the running of a hospital has been sacked. We can talk all we want about this problem but we have not yet tackled it in the way we should have.

A total of 8,000 patients tested positive for superbugs in Irish hospitals in 2005 and 6,000 patients in more than 30 hospitals were infected by MRSA. That is incredible. Between 1999 and 2002 the incidence of MRSA increased steadily from 38.8% to 42.7%. What are people working in the hospitals and nursing homes doing in this respect?