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:
It is our job to objectively and independently consider all of the various different inputs and come to a considered and educated view in relation to the actual advice that we subsequently provided through the publication of our report. In other work that we have done, there are certainly much clearer pathways. It can be quite obvious, after we have done all of the work, as to what the direction of travel should be. In this situation, however, we are not in that space. There are legitimate options that could be taken in various different directions. Ultimately, it requires a policy decision in relation to the specific pathway that is followed in the context of the advice that we provided.