Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

The winter oversight group is effectively the national operations team of which Mr. McCallion, as chief operations officer, is in charge and focuses on winter in particular. The crisis management team is effectively the overall management team of the HSE, with some additional expert colleagues. It focuses on the same topic. The most recent example of a similar team is the one that met during Covid. We have different crisis management teams, not all of which are chaired by the CEO. It depends on the crisis and where it is. Covid was the last example of a whole-system crisis, when Mr. Paul Reid chaired the crisis management team which sat for a number of years in effect.

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