Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is interesting when Members criticise management of the health service. If one looks at where we have come from, we allowed the drugs bill to increase from ¤576 million to ¤1.9 billion a year without any check being made and a health system to develop in which fewer than 10% of the people in charge of managing finance within the HSE had a financial management qualification. That happened under their watch. They talked about the site being identified in 2002. Ten years on nothing has yet been built.