Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

6:30 pm

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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We have been led to believe that it is all becoming one, that the trinity is being merged. In order to send out a strong signal, we must ensure that those who hold office, engaged or employed by the HSE or otherwise, operate in a system that allows them not to be advisers but consultants. They may be advisers but in a broader context they may offer consultancy from outside of the State.