Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The other record Fianna Fáil had was that it created the HSE and in doing that, added layers of bureaucracy. We would all like to see the HSE and those charged with running the health service held to account. There is political accountability, as the Senator knows, but there is no accountability for those in the HSE and hospital groups who were issued money through a Vote by the Department to run themselves, and it is about time that they were held to account. We are always held to account as politicians and rightly so. It is about time that those charged with running our health system are held to account.

I am not aware of what the Senator is referring to in his point on the piece of equipment. If he would be happy to give me details, I will pass it on to the Minister, but I have not seen that particular issue raised.