Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE Winter Plan: HSE

Photo of Seán CroweSeán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a number of questions but I will not have time to get into them today. Part of what we try to do here is reassure the public. We have heard this morning about the flu vaccine. Mr. Reid was talking in terms of minimising the impact of Covid on the cancer services and screening. In the final minute or two, he might expand on how that his happening. The big message people want to hear is reassurance that we are learning from the mistakes that have been made in the past and we will do things differently. I refer particularly to mistakes that were made early on in this Covid pandemic, to the difficulty to date of a big organisation showing flexibility and changing in midstream and to some of the things that are not working. People want to hear that the HSE is capable of doing that and that we are learning, as I say, from mistakes in the past. I, again, thank the witnesses for all their contributions here this morning. Mr. Reid might sum up.

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