Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept it is a very genuine issue. The Deputy will also accept that I cannot deliver the budget for 2018 now at the start of May. However, my Department is working with the HSE to prepare the business and health case for the roll-out of early supported discharge services throughout the country. That is the work the Department of Health is undertaking with the HSE. I would like to see this rolled out nationally and the vehicle for achieving that is the budgetary process. The Deputy is correct; I am not talking about another pilot, but a national roll-out.

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