Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion

Mr. Robert Watt:

I agree that there is a great deal of data. Much of it is made available through the reports from the NTPF and we should look at that. It is in everybody's interests that the data we have on this significant matter of public interest is put out there. The Deputy should not have to be asking parliamentary questions of us. It is time-consuming for the Deputies and for us. This is not a complaint, because Deputies have the right to ask whatever they wish, but we got 15,000 parliamentary questions last year. It is tying up a great deal of resources of staff who could be doing legislation, policy work and all the other things, which they want to do and which add more value. Absolutely, we can look back at the Deputy's requests. If that information is available now, what we should do is agree to put it up every week or every second week - whatever is practical - so that the Deputy could access the data. That is something we can commit to doing. I will talk to colleagues.

Mr. Reid may wish to answer some of the specific questions. The numbers the Deputy quotes seem to be correct but Mr. Reid can confirm them.

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