Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

It will happen.

With regard to the hospital group realignment, again Sláintecare says the hospital groups should be lined up with community services. The Minister has proposals to do this, which he hopes to bring to the Government before the recess. They are very much in line with Sláintecare. It will mean change for some hospital groups but others are already aligned so it will not mean much change for them. With regard to who is in place for Sláintecare, we have a Sláintecare programme office in the Department led by Laura Magahy. It has published its report for the first quarter and it is about to publish its report for the second quarter. It hit all of the milestones in the first quarter. I do not know whether we will hit all of the milestones in the second quarter but we will get very close. These are publicly available.

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