Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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The witnesses spoke earlier about 80% of hospital activity relating to chronic illness. There are chronic disease management programmes set out for primary care. Why are they not being implemented? Perhaps, I should ask Deputy Harty about that. If there are best practice programmes in place that will achieve better health outcomes and better value for money, why are we not implementing them?