Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Robert Watt:
As the Deputy knows, we have added a significant number of beds over the past two years. We are doing everything we can to fast track and approve and do things as quickly as we possibly can. I share the Deputy's frustration with this. It does take too long and we made more rapid progress on some of these projects during Covid-19. We need to learn those lessons and apply that crisis mentality, that can-do attitude to what are now more normal times. We are reviewing this and Mr. Tierney, who is present, is responsible each day for going through, with our colleagues in the HSE, how we can establish the need, get through the approval process and get them to Government and then go out and do the design and procurement as rapidly as we possibly can because it needs-----
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