Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I thank all the witnesses. One of the questions I want to ask relates to priorities. There has been a sea change in funding for healthcare, which has increased substantially in the past two years because of the Covid pandemic. We now need to prioritise. We touched on heart disease and other areas earlier. Could the witnesses set out a list of four or five priority areas where immediate action could be taken to achieve results reasonably fast? We as a health committee could get the Department to respond to it. The witnesses covered an extensive range of issues and each of those areas is iimportant, but what are the four or five areas they feel the Department and the HSE could respond to very quickly that would produce a beneficial result?