Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is there scope for rationalisation of all these organisations? They all do tremendous work but there are many of them and it is an inefficient way to run the health service. I acknowledge this is the way it has built up over many years and we will take the flak for that. Many of them are charities. They do outstanding work and run their own separate fund raisers. There seems to be a great deal of doubling up and I wonder whether this could be addressed in the kindest way in reforming the health service, while acknowledging the origins of these organisations, their purpose and where they are coming from. The reality is most of them are part and parcel of the national health service.