Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

Minister, I do not accept anything that was said. The Minister is obviously happy with what she has been told, but I have proof that it is flawed and has been organised and engineered in the same way that Ministers from my party were told by regulators, central bankers and service providers that the banks were well capitalised weeks before the collapse. There is no ambiguity; there cannot be self-regulation or over-familiarity in the health service such as occurred in the financial sector. We saw the catastrophe to which that led. I thank the Minister of State for her response which I accept and appreciate, but I do not agree with its contents for the reason I have given. The contents of my speech bear out exactly what that is. The revealed documents pose very serious questions over the integrity, credibility and governance standards at a senior level within the HSE and HIQA. As a citizen, I intend to see to it that these questions are answered.