Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is still a substantial body of work and we are a number of years away in terms of it. The HSE needs to be cognisant of the fact that we are going to presumably undertake more structural reform when the Committee on the Future of Health Care reports in April, which may enable us to have more fruitful conversations on structures across the health service. I looked through the various briefings when preparing for this committee hearing. When we look at section 3 of my Department's briefing, which is the performance information section by section and directorate by directorate, we have a sense of what the HSE did in 2015, what it did in 2016 versus its targets in 2016 and what it intends to do in 2017. As Minister, from the performance and accountability framework point of view, it is against the delivery of the commitments in the national service plan that the HSE should be judged in 2017.