Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
That is our intention, Deputy, but at the same time I need to make sure that we are meeting patient need and we are driving very hard on productivity in the meantime. That is our intention and I can understand that this is an important change that creates some difficulty, potentially, for some hospital managers and that there may be local resistance to some of that but at the same time we cannot bank into a system something that we know is actually potentially frustrating the implementation of our stated policy, which is Sláintecare and the delivery of that. Sorry, I do not want to take up the Deputy's time.
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