Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have not encountered any resistance. I am not saying there is not any - there may well be some - but, if there is, it has not come across my desk. The reality is that plans were advanced, implementation was paused for the reasons we have discussed, and the detailed planning continued and continues now. I have set up an advisory committee to provide those of us involved with an external view. I have set up the most senior team possible in terms of the ongoing implementation towards universal healthcare, of which regionalisation is one part.