Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The point that is being made is that the boundaries for the hospital groups were drawn for other reasons, as opposed to service delivery reasons. The HSE were handed those by the Higgins report. I think the point being made is the HSE did not have a say in the composition of the hospital groups but did have a say in terms of organising the community health organisations.