Debate resumed on amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"agrees that the 2014 national service plan provides a comprehensive basis for the Health Service Executive, HSE, to continue to deliver safe and high quality health and social care services to the general public throughout the year; notes that the overriding priority reflected throughout the 2014 national service plan, at a time of undoubted financial constraint, is the commitment to patient safety; notes that the HSE has set the advancement and implementation of the Government's programme of health reform at the centre of its service planning for 2014; and notes, in particular, the progress that has been made in reducing the waiting times for patients on trolleys in emergency departments, with a reduction of 8,814 in the year to 27 December 2013, down 34% from 2011."- (Minister for Health)

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