Dr. Sara Burke:

Will the Chair let us go off and do some homework on it. It is a great question. What is stopping it? I do not know but I think power plays a big part in this. For Sláintecare to be delivered, the people who currently have power have to give it away and are very slow to do so. That is what happens if there is not an engine driving reform or a Sláintecare programme implementation office, as the Deputy earlier suggested. The original mechanism was that it be linked to a Cabinet sub-committee with political clout and leadership and that a committee like this one monitor it and act as a watchdog for implementation. Those components are not in place. It needs to be devolved. I think everybody agrees on that.