Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion

Mr. Paul Reid:

That is exactly where we are going. That has been communicated. Is everybody saying "This is the best thing that is ever going to happen"? Probably not yet. That is part of the dialogue and communications that we will be going with. As Mr. Watt described it, that is the line of flight we are heading into. There will be functional specialists within that, but it has to be a cross-cutting service.

One thing that I restate again and again in all of our workshops is that this is about the service to the patients and the users. It is not about structures, although structures are the enabler. Unless we are improving the services, it is not a corporate restructuring we should be on.

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