Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority
2:00 am
Mr. Seán Egan:
On the engagement piece, this review is primarily about and for the people in the mid-west and the services they should expect to receive. We were keen to ensure we spoke to as many people as we could to get their views in relation to the way services are provided within the region and their views on how things need to be provided going forward. We conducted a very extensive engagement exercise. As our CEO stated earlier, it was actually the largest engagement process we have ever conducted in any of the work we have done in our 18 years of existence. We received over 1,100 submissions. About 75% of those came from family members or people who use services, and we got a really good range of views in relation to service users. We also proactively engaged with a number of interested stakeholder groups, including patient representative groups.