Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
If the controls I have recommended come into play. The Minister just has to finalise them and perhaps add to them. This has developed over several years. Subject to committee dates, the Minister has committed to bringing her proposal to Cabinet based on my report - I spoke to her this morning - and to herself, her officials and myself coming back before the committee before the end of July and setting out exactly how quickly the steps can be taken to deal with this. I would rather wait for that. I have set out the best attempt I can at what the control environment needs to be. As one of Deputy's colleagues asked, would it not be reasonable to expect that this would always have been the case? It would, but it is not. I did mention that governance is questionable. To be fair to all of my hospital managers and colleagues around the country, when I say that, I include myself. It is a reflection on all of us when our governance is weak. We have to stand up, we have to assess it, we have to accept it and then we do something about it.
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