Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am just asking the question because it would involve is a debate on a wider matter. Catherine Day carried out her analysis and compiled a report on how we might manage that. I am of the view that it can be managed and that we can retain a voluntary health system that will be a public health system that will Sláintecare-based and that puts communities first. It should not all be led by and centred on hospitals and consultants. That change needs to come.

This new institution will not answer, solve or change all of those issues. We need it to be built. We also need to ensure that its buildings, etc., will be much better than those in which people in Holles Street are operating at present. For that reason, I look forward to going back to Cabinet in two weeks to hear what has been said at the committee and to make a decision on the matter. Further delay would not be the right choice.

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