Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the problem. My concern is that we have spent four years establishing a system that is now going to be replaced and the Minister is not legislating for that. The Minister told the committee two or three weeks ago that the Department is not progressing legislation on hospital groups to provide for a legislative and administrative framework, and that Sláintecare takes precedence. He said the hospital groups would be replaced with whatever model Sláintecare proposes. That is what the Minister told the committee and that is the basis for my remarks.