Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Derek Tierney:
If we can just stand back for a minute, the 356 that the Chair referred to was a list compiled in 2012, recut in 2014 and again in 2016. What we have committed to the C and AG and accepted as a recommendation is that our job in 2026 is to stand back, map the 180 that are currently operational, map the 2024 to 2025 centres in the pipeline and see what that regional distribution per head of population looks like so that we can at least see whether there is any inequity or whether we have achieved equity. That is what we need to do. Next year will be around defining the gap that is left to go per head of population for that service need. I will confident that, by the end of 2026, we will have a full understanding of what a full pipeline network looks like. When will then have to understand how we fund and resource it.
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