Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
On health insurance, our responsibility here is to deliver a public system and a system that people can depend on in a public way. Of course, there will always be the opportunity if people want to have private health insurance. That is absolutely their entitlement for which they can use entirely private facilities. That is an option for them but our responsibility on this committee and in the Oireachtas is to deliver a public health system that people can be comfortable in accessing and have confidence in, and certainly one in which they can have confidence in the outcomes. We know that we need to improve access and that is a huge focus for us.
On oncology, as I said, I will visit and we will progress that. I want to see it delivered closer to home. That is a key target within Sláintecare.
On CAMHS, I note the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is gone but she has spoken about Cork and Kerry a number of times to this committee, to be fair.
I am sorry, I cannot remember the Deputy’s fourth question.
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