Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to follow up on Deputy Harty's question. The Health Reform Alliance had a press conference today on the calls by health and social care groups on the Government to publish the Sláintecare implementation plan, and to express the groups' frustration with Sláintecare's stagnation one year on. It has been recognised that some policies have been put forward, which the Taoiseach has named, but there is a big fear that it is being delivered piecemeal. Unless the implementation plan is brought to the Dáil for Members to discuss as a whole policy, there is a great fear that the Government is losing the medical profession with regard to the implementation of the Sláintecare plan as the only health policy in town.

Will the Taoiseach ensure that the implementation plan comes before the Dáil before the summer recess? One year on, we are still waiting for it. It is crucial that we see it as an overall plan and not a piecemeal plan. Mandate and the Communication Workers Union have endorsed Sláintecare, and if the implementation plan is not brought onto the floor of the Dáil, there will be calls for civil society to-----

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