Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Anne O'Connor:

We are working with the services on the plan. Part of the winter challenge is that we need to clear capacity in advance of the busy period at the end of December. If we clear that capacity too early, the system will fill up again very quickly. A significant amount of work is under way to ensure that we have many supports available to kick in from December and to clear out------