Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The key to this is the regionalisation of staff, resources, investment and services. An audiology unit in Tallaght hospital, for instance, covers Wicklow and Kildare. If you are living in Wicklow town and your child needs to get tested, Tallaght is not local, as such. You could be waiting up to two years to get that child tested. The resources needs to follow. It is part of the challenge of regionalisation. We are aware of the challenges in getting staff in particular areas. We touched on that in relation to expert staff in Navan. If we do not have all those pieces, regionalisation will not work. That is the big worry people have. We are changing things because they are not working but are we going to go back to the old health board stuff, which I am old enough to remember? Some people look back on them fondly but most of us remember that they did not work. Is this a poor replica of that?