Dr. Sara Burke:

I wish to make a brief further comment. We hear a great deal about how Sláintecare needs to be funded within the usual annual budgetary frameworks.

That says a lot about the absence of political buy-in because if there was political buy-in at the most senior level people would get that this cannot be done within the annual budgetary process and that it needs not just multi-annual funding, but this additional transition fund to shift the provision of healthcare in Ireland.