Colm Burke (Fine Gael)

I recognise that people are growing bored at the issue of our health services but I raise it none the less because it is important. It is embarrassing for the country that the Pakistani Embassy had to contact the HSE to find out how we intend to deal with junior doctors whom we invited to take up jobs in our health service and who are twiddling their thumbs in guesthouses. The Department of Health claims it is a HSE problem and the HSE lays the blame on the Medical Council, which in turn claims it was never consulted about the new procedures for category five supervised doctors.