Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed)

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I will touch on a couple of points. One is the learning. That has been taken on board in respect of the children's hospital leading into these major projects. The second point, which I should have mentioned earlier, is that the CEO has indicated that part of the new reform of the centre will include a particular appointment to focus on these big strategic projects, because of the breadth of things in which we are involved, such as primary care centres and so on, to try to bring a focus to that to ensure we shorten the timescales as much as we can on the delivery side. The process is still subject to the normal code, as colleagues in the Department have outlined earlier, and we have to work through those steps, but we are placing an absolute focus on those very big projects, because they need particular attention, and we recognise that from the learning from CHI. Certainly our estates colleagues have worked very hard to try to ensure the learning, as it has emerged, is applied to those projects, whether it is the new maternity hospital or the elective hospitals.

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