John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the CEO and his team for coming. It would be too easy to pass by the notion that Covid has probably been a good news story for the HSE. It is not over yet, but if someone had asked two and a half years ago if the HSE had the capacity to roll out more than 9 million vaccines, maintain our hospital system to some degree and keep our healthcare system moving during that period, with all the commitments required from personnel and the leadership required from the management and board, there might have been some questions about it. I do not think there are any questions about it now, which needs to be acknowledged. This will be the chief executive's first opportunity to move into a greenfield setting to some extent and set about implementing the things I imagine he wanted to do when he was appointed chief executive. Covid arrived soon after that. How close is the HSE to normality?