Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

-----and to find ways to make it better. I do believe that the assessment of need process in the legislation has to be reformed. Legislation has not kept up to date with modern-day practice. We need to get on with providing services to children rather than consuming all of our resources in just assessments that actually do not give children anything.