Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)

2:00 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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This is something that we have been working on for quite some time. Getting access is one thing. The commissioning period is the other, as the Deputy correctly pointed out. I have another meeting on Thursday. This will be the third, fourth or fifth on the detail of the commissioning, which we have been trying to truncate as far as possible in every way. Mr. Tierney, others and I, including KPMG, the HSE and CHI, have been trying to push and test every element of this to truncate the period as much as possible. The single biggest issue within it is the situation and testing of-----