Mary White (Fianna Fail)

They went on about it and I am entitled to do the same. We are debating the HSE's resources. The executive needs to become much more efficient and reallocate its human resources. It does not seem to have the ability of the private sector to manage.

The next four recommendations in the Monageer report relate to gardaí reporting to their immediate managers, gardaí reporting to the HSE and so on. These are common-sense recommendations and they refer to the normal way of doing business. Serious warnings were issued about the family involved in this case and nobody, other than the undertaker, used his or her common sense. Officials should have reported concerns to their managers in the HSE or elsewhere. The issue is people doing their jobs, not financial resources. People will become complacent because many pages in the report have been blacked out and this could lead them to believe that if they do not do their job properly, they will not be exposed. The report demonstrates clearly that local HSE problems were dumped on the Garda, which was not fair.

There is no difference of opinion among political parties about the Bill. We all support it and people who are calling on us and asking for help all concur that Deputy Barry Andrews is an outstanding Minister of State and they are lucky to have him in this Ministry as this time. We must energise the system and speed up the process and time involved in parents adopting their child following approval.

Reference was made to the Dowse case yesterday and a colleague and I had an exchange over it. If my comments on it were hurtful to anybody, I sincerely apologise because it was the last thing I intended. This is a serious human issue. People's emotions have been seriously disturbed.