To give her her due, Minister Harney manages to convey a sense of sympathy and on occasion, indignation, at the trials and tribulations she faces weekly in that most hot of seats.

Women throughout the country who have undergone this procedure in recent years have had one of the uneasiest weeks of their lives. Amidst the outcry and finger pointing, there is one constant.

Yet another area of the health service which had been identified years before as in great need of improvement has been tactfully ignored until erupting into a national scandal. There was no need for yet another example of an adequate lack of spending in an area previously highlighted, but yet again we have one.

Meanwhile, the gap between those who can afford proper treatment and those who must wait for often sub-standard service becomes even more apparent.

Any individual who can afford it will always put their health and welfare in the best and most capable hands. And so they should. But for everyone else it seems increasingly like a lottery where your chances of winning are becoming more remote by the day.

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