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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
Sorry, with respect, it is my time. It is not that HIQA is not leaning into it but it is simply making the point that to go from a model 2 to model 3 hospital will take time, and the short-term focus should be to get beds in. That is what HIQA has said. I am asking the Minister, because this is an option HIQA has put on the table in a report. The people of the mid-west want to know whether the Government will support that option. If the Government supports it, then the urgency and the resources have to come with it. Otherwise, it will just sit there and it will never happen. I again ask the Minister, is the Government committed to it from a policy perspective?
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