Ms Laura Magahy:

I want to see it done in five years. In fact, I want to see it done in four or three years. We are only two years into it. The report was written in 2017 and it took that length of time before our office was established and implementation systems agreed with the HSE and other colleagues. We are up and running now but I do not think it should take ten years to implement Sláintecare. We are well on the road towards doing that and every year that goes by we are advancing towards it. As I said earlier, the budget is a lever of change but it is not the only lever. We still need structures to support the changes and critically, we need e-health and the people to support them. Quite honestly, one of the biggest challenges will be recruiting the numbers of staff envisaged, which will be funded by the budget. As we know, it takes years to train professional staff and unless they are in the pipeline, we will not have them ready to switch on. That is going to be one of our biggest challenges. Now that we have money, we must make sure that we are able to recruit people and put them into the right place. We must also ensure that the systems are joined up and supported by e-health and that the structures are in place to support the changes required.