Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

We should forget this codology about celebrity questions and answers. Who is the HSE codding? That is an example of why this Government has failed the Irish people. It thinks it can bring in Gerald Kean for an hour and a half and have platitudes on the reason the health service is so good. It is not good.

I want the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, to come in here but, more importantly, perhaps it is time we brought Professor Drumm in here and asked him about his policy on communications. It is appalling, at a time when trust and confidence in the health service is at an all-time low, to hear the national director of communications of the HSE on an RTE radio programme this morning and quoted in the newspapers saying these are "opinion formers" and that it is part of its "open mind policy". How dare he insult the ordinary person who is sick and struggling to get access to health care. I want the Minister for Health and Children to come into this House as a matter of urgency. I ask the Leader to reply to that specific request on the Order of Business.