So much for a socialist Minister for Health. Why was the ad hoc scheme not resumed by the Southern Health Board? Furthermore, would the Minister not accept that representations regarding hardship cases among the elderly are not normally made by Deputies to the Minister in this House? They are made to their respective health boards. That is why the Minister can count on the fingers of one hand the number of complaints which he has received.

That appears to be an argument rather than a question.

It is a question.

I assure the Deputy that the community care divisions of the various health boards give without question every possible assistance to the elderly in their areas. The Deputy is well aware of that in relation both to the Southern Health Board and other health boards. There have been particular difficulties in resuming the ad hoc dental and optical schemes in the Southern Health Board area——

Why?

Because the health board have not succeeded in setting up a structure and I am pressurising on that aspect.

Is it not because of the shortage of money?

It is not a question of money.

Of course it is.

It is a question of organisation.