Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will make one quick point. In the allocation of the biggest budget spending ever, it is imperative to do one thing. I mean what I am about to say in a non-political manner. The Minister was Opposition spokesperson for almost a decade. It is imperative that the moneys allocated in respect of health, disability and the hospice sector are not given to the HSE to administer. The moneys must be given to organisations like COPE and Marymount University Hospital. I will challenge the Minister and the Minister for Finance to sit down with those of us who are practitioners in order to ensure that the money goes to the organisations. We have had a decade of supplementary budgets in health. That is my only point. It will be the Minister's legacy if he gets that right.