I welcome and support the motion. Not a day goes by that I do not think of my great friend of many years who died from suicide. I was with him the day before he died. At the time, he had even fooled me. I think of members of the emergency services who have to deal with things on a daily basis. I think of the Garda, the fire service, and suicide watch and search and rescue organisations. All these people, many of them volunteers, go out and do their best to help people. Then, I see investigations in the HSE where it takes eight years for a person to admit they were wrong and hundreds of thousands of euro wasted on legal fees because somebody did not put up their hand and say they did wrong. This money could go into services that save the lives of people suffering from mental health problems. The same is true in the Garda. We saw yesterday that five gardaí were found not guilty after a long seven or eight years. That cost hundreds of thousands and had gardaí off the street when they could have been helping people. That could have been dealt with in a more timely fashion, which could have helped services that are badly wanted for people with mental health difficulties. We have to get this right. We have to make sure the funds available to us are used to resource the most needy, namely, the elderly and people who suffer with mental health problems. With all the challenges they have now, we have to make sure they get the best treatment. To do that, we have to stop waste and fix the issue with accountability, so that if people get something wrong, they put your hand up and say they got it wrong, learn from it and move on. That is what we have to do. Until we do that, we will have hundreds of thousands of euro being wasted on legal challenges that could help people in need. I ask for the Minister of State's help with that. I hope we do not have to wait for seven or eight years for other cases in the health services to conclude when they could be fixed if people put up their hands and were accountable. We need to learn from our mistakes. That goes all the way up the chain to the very stop. We need to stop the cover-ups and help people who are in need.

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