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

Just to go back to the regional health areas, RHAs, again I appreciate the discussions we have had with the witnesses and their team on this issue. It has been helpful and we intend to continue them. Am I right in saying that the governance structure of the voluntary hospitals and community care organisations touched on earlier, and given their independent nature, that how they are tied into that structure is a work in progress? Probably part of that is that I have not seen a specific RHA board model. I think in the last meeting we touched on the question of who would have oversight on this board and who would not. What engagement has there been with those voluntary healthcare forums on that? People at home are apparently interested but I think it is a key element of pulling this together.