Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, it is. The stark reality we are faced with right now is that we have a huge number of men, women and children waiting for care. What I want, and I am sure we all agreed on this, is a single-tier public health system that can handle capacity for the entire country. While we are building that capacity up, we will have to use all the capacity we have on the island in the best way possible to get care for people who are waiting for it. As part of that, we are looking at the mandate of the NTPF in terms of how it operates.