Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

On the value of focusing on the productivity model, the Mater, for example, is a hospital with 80% of the consultants on the POCC. It is one of the first hospitals that has put in serious Saturday rostering. There have been 293 additional procedures since they started opening an additional theatre on Saturday. Now they are looking at how they can open additional theatres to support model 3 hospitals. There is a big change happening in some of the hospitals - not enough and not fast enough, but really significant progress is happening there as well as a major reduction in their trolleys and a very significant difference in the number of patients being discharged on Saturdays. An additional 546 patients have been discharged from the Mater on a Saturday this year compared with last year as a consequence of trying to focus on implementing the tools we already have.