Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Laura Magahy:

Absolutely. We are not starting from scratch, but we almost have to start from scratch as we determine the ideal way to plan for the projected increase in population from 4.6 million to 5.2 million over the next eight to ten years. We will start by looking at where the various sectors of the population are located, what they look like, what their needs are, what their age profiles are, where they stand on the deprivation index and what their requirements are. Then we will build up a service in respect of that population. It was mentioned earlier that it is better to do it that way rather than setting out where the buildings are and asking the service to respond to that.

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