Ms Marie O'Shea:

I engaged with the Minister for Health and he seemed to receive the proposals quite well. What I am really going on are the soundbites that came out in the media when I heard the Taoiseach and Tánaiste refer to needing to give this consideration, a breach of promise to the electorate and taking a slow and steady approach to it. This is a health service that was developed and put into implementation in 2019. Where any other health service is being designed, the HSE now has specialist clinical directorates which do not launch new health services unless they are evidence-based. They then pilot them and amend them, and it is only when they are satisfied that they are capable of being implemented and reaching their objectives that they are rolled out. I find the attitude of asking what the electorate think about it to be a little bit disconcerting.