John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I suppose this is something that we can bring up with the HSE. My question is a positive one. We spoke to the Secretary General of the Department of Health a couple of weeks ago. He followed through on what we asked him to do, to firm up what we had proposed in committee here over the past year and to put together an independent panel to deal with reviews and reports that are commissioned by the HSE by people who would not be former HSE employees. For the first time ever we have definite proposals in front of us and the question for the committee is when are they going to be implemented. It is a question that we can ask Mr. O'Brien today. We are moving in the right direction by having the proposals in black and white. Today will be about trying to figure out when the HSE will sign off on the proposals.