Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

First, the HSE service plan is not delayed. There is a process for considering the HSE service plan, that is, it is submitted to the Minister for Health. That has been done. There is a period of 21 days within which the Minister for Health considers the plan. That 21 days runs to Monday next, 16 December, and the Minister for Health will have made his decision on the service plan by then.

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