Patrick O'Donovan

It’s a case of competing resources.

It’s a very small sum of money for 16 and 17-year-olds. Governments have to be prepared to put their hands in their pocket to do that.

I also feel that I have a role and a responsibility to people in this country that are carrying disabilities, neurological conditions, and life-limiting and life-altering conditions.

They are the first group of people that I am answerable to.

I have no notion of going anywhere.

Last Sunday was the ultimate betrayal.

To be honest about it, was quite hurtful, and I have to say that I came out, for want of a better word, with regards to my epilepsy, for a very good reason that I didn't want to have a situation where when I did stutter, that someone would…

I do think bringing a person's health into public discourse in the manner in which it was, through an anonymous source, is something that I haven't seen before.

I do have confidence in the chair, the board and the director general.

I do. And I do on the basis of they inherited a bag of you know what, and they have had to try and untangle that and put this thing back together after the way in which it had been run for years.