Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed)

Mr. Robert Watt:

The HSE and the Department are looking at it this week. Mr. Gloster and I have a meeting later this week to look at the timelines again. We are hoping to do it as quickly as possible. Our ambition is this autumn. We need to interrogate the timelines. Design teams are in place. We need to finalise the detailed design, which I hope will be used for all of the elective hospitals. We must expedite the planning process. If the Chair agrees, we will write separately when we have an update on the timelines because they are in flux.