Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that the intention would be to better align the existing hospital groups with the ambitions of Sláintecare. That would be accommodated in whatever legislative changes would be made in order to better align the hospital groups. My understanding is that there is not a proposal to abandon the hospital groups or to disregard them but rather to better align them with the community healthcare organisations.