Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

——in the future of Irish health care.

This Government is planning the most ambitious programme of change in the health service for over 30 years. The key elements of that programme will be a significant rationalisation of existing health services agencies; the establishment of a health service executive which will be the first ever body charged with managing the health service as a single national entity; the establishment of a health information and quality authority; the re-organisation of the Department of Health and Children to ensure improved policy development and oversight; the modernisation of the system-supporting processes; the strengthening of governance and accountability across the system.

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