Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)

That will need to be done better.

I want to address a few other points. I am concerned to see a drop of 30% in ring-fenced funding for Sláintecare. While I accept some of the activities previously funded under the subheading have been mainstreamed under the HSE and core funding allocation, this is still a dramatic drop, particularly given we now have the Sláintecare implementation plan for Sláintecare 2025. This plan, however, lacks detailed costings and fails to state how much has been pledged to the implementation of it. There must be an acceptance that reform costs money but this investment will pay significant dividends in the long term and I do not think we can justify a 30% drop when so many reforms have yet to be implemented. Has a ring-fenced funding allocation been provided for the implementation of Sláintecare over a specific timeline or even the new implementation period?