Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion
Dr. GrĂ¡inne Healy:
We have looked at the possibility that this could be exclusionary. We have gone back to using the word "citizen" because of the feedback we received. The feedback we received indicated this wording was seen as more inclusive. We did a bit of research on that. Our sense is that we are not there yet. However, we engaged 100 advocacy groups at a seminar last week. These groups included all different kinds of voluntary organisations representing people right across the community. When we examine the regions over the next year, we hope to really drill down in co-operation with those organisations, so that we get right down into the communities to inform the co-design of the system. Whether someone is a citizen or not, we will be very mindful of that-----
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