Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senator Ray Butler raised the important issue of quarries. It is important that we allow for local authorities to be involved, but also that the Minister with responsibility for this area, Deputy Coveney, would be involved.

Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of the person in University Hospital Galway. I am happy to raise that issue with the Minister. She also raised the issue of Apple. We will debate that next week in the House. On NAMA, there is a commission of inquiry under way and there will also be a debate in the Committee of Public Accounts. The Senator is also right in regard to the area of health. The crisis in health did not just happen with the click of a switch. It happened under the watch of some of the Members opposite. When I hear Deputy Micheál Martin speak about fairness in Irish society, I wonder where he was for 14 years when he was leading various Departments. However, I will not open a political debate on that today.