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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