Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion
Mr. Paul Reid:
That is exactly it. It is about future-proofing. Obviously, the duration of this project is over the significantly long term. We wanted to make sure the service is ring-fenced, at all stages into the future, for women and infants programmes, including maternity, neonatal, gynaecological and obstetrics, in order to protect the service and ensure it is there for the future, over its entire lifespan, and will not be compromised. In fairness to the dialogue that happened with partners after the discussion with the board, everybody was committed to that principle.
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