Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am getting to that. There were many questions on this topic and it may take more than 30 seconds to answer all of them. I will start again.

The Government policy on health is as outlined in the programme for Government. That is where Government policies are detailed unless an alternative policy is subsequently produced by the Government. The Sláintecare report was discussed at Cabinet last week and the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, has undertaken to consider it in full and develop a reasoned response to it on behalf of the Government and decide whether to accept it in full or in part. Several issues need to be teased out, not least that the initial view of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is that the costings in the report are not accurate and do not adequately provide------

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