Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

It is St. Vincent's hospital. What I could not encourage more is really spending time on the productivity dashboard. People will be able to see the increase in investment, the activity per specialism per hospital and the take-up of various contracts. People will be able to look at the section 38 hospitals versus the HSE hospitals. There are many different ways of analysing productivity and output. While there are always certain local nuances, the productivity dashboard is a real measure of transparency and a move away, if I might say, from ideas that everybody is an independent republic to this being very much a State system run by the State.

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