Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the two delegates. I am fully supportive of the report which is an excellent piece of work. Like the previous speaker, I sat on the Committee on the Future of Healthcare for 11 months. It is welcome that the report endorses the journey we were on.

This is totally doable. It is really about ideology. It is a "will we", not a "can we", question. It is welcome that the Minister for Health has said he wants to do it and I hope his colleagues agree with him. Tying it into the Sláintecare timeline is completely achievable.

I have some questions about how we will do it, rather than if we do it. Where I come from we are 100% in favour of doing it. It is a core belief of my party. In his opening statement Dr. de Buitléir said, "significant progress can be made relatively quickly." What are the three or four steps a Government should take? The cost of this measure would be cumulative over a number of years. While they do not all have to be financial, some of them will have to be and obviously there may be an immediate impact. What are the three or four immediate steps Dr de Buitléir believes the Government should take to implement it?