Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and congratulate him on his elevation to high office. It is a very challenging portfolio. I am delighted that he has been able to outline that vision here, not just on the Covid-19 issue but on the vision for the future. Given his experience before politics, he will need it all to take on what is and has always been one of the most challenging portfolios in any Government anywhere in the world. I wish him all the very best in that and I know that everybody on all sides in this House and all of the Irish people are relying on him to try to deliver that plan and bring that vast experience from the private sector into this system.It is very complex but nonetheless the Irish people deserve a system, as the Minister has outlined, where everybody regardless of their circumstances will be able to access world class healthcare. I wish the Minister the best of luck in that.