Mr. Bernard Gloster:

According to Sláintecare, the health structures across the country were complex. In simple terms, you had community healthcare and acute hospitals. There were two different management systems within the HSE. I was a chief officer in a community healthcare area myself for a very long time. Sláintecare recommended that all the health structures be brought together, not really for the structure, but to improve the service that the population got by having one system. If you take all of the services now in north Dublin and what essentially used to be the North-Eastern Health Board, Ms Long now has full delegated control from me of all of those services. She can create more seamless pathways between them and the better use of resources. That is it in a nutshell.