Health is an issue we cannot get away from. Why should we? The health system is a shambles and always has been but it is more than that now. It is an embarrassment. Yesterday, the Leader accused many of the Members who spoke about the national children's hospital of being hysterical.

I did not use that word at all.

I would call a €2 billion overspend hysterical. I would call the need to overhaul the capital projects contained in Project Ireland 2040-----

This is today's Order of Business, not yesterday's.

This is the Order of Business. The GPs will be standing outside Leinster House this afternoon. The nurses are on strike and the members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, will be joining them next week. We have the longest waiting lists in Europe.

No we do not.

We have a Minister who does not know what he is doing while Fianna Fáil members are sitting around like gillies. I do not know if Senators understand the term but it is a Dublin way of referring to patsies. The Fianna Fáil Party has maintained the confidence and supply agreement but did not ask about or was not made aware of the situation. Are its members not feeling stung by the fact that they were not informed? Did they fall asleep at the wheel? The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection appeared on "Today with Sean O'Rourke" earlier and stated that Fine Gael is known for being prudent with the public finances and for being boring. I put it to Fianna Fáil that it was so bored while negotiating the confidence and supply agreement that it fell asleep and never asked-----

Why did Sinn Féin not enter negotiations?

-----about the €2 billion overspend relating to the national children's hospital. This is not hysteria. In psychological terms, what the Leader is doing is transference. I suggest he looks that up.