Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the scenario there. We have cost overruns in every hospital in the country. We have letters of undertaking being given to Tallaght Hospital for its overdraft. What is going to happen in Sligo General Hospital and Beaumont Hospital with their overruns? We are heading for ¤500 million so will the Minister have to find ¤1.25 billion in health cuts when it comes to the budget in December? We have heard his personal view that public sector pay needs to be looked at. Will that be Government policy? Will the Croke Park Agreement be thrown out the window, as it were? The health service as people see it is a farce. We do not have a scenario where, of course, health professionals are working very hard and everyone is doing their best. The bottom line in respect of management is that hospitals are taking out overdrafts, senior civil servants are refusing to answer questions and the Minister is talking about how, aspirationally, we are going to have universal health care, free GP care and the devil and all. However, the reality is that nothing has happened.