Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Very good advice is coming from that advisory body about the RHAs but we cannot get access to its advisory letters that are sent to the Minister every couple of months. That seems ridiculous.

We talked about various big-ticket items relating to digital health, workforce planning and so on. Another of those is the whole question of a legal entitlement to healthcare, which has come up recently. There is no legally based entitlement to healthcare unlike social protection and so on. All there is at the moment is eligibility if the service is there. Do our guests know if that issue is being addressed at any level within the Department or the HSE? We have not seen that it is.