Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The report will be available to the Government and then to everybody else very shortly. It is a good report and it is very detailed. It is a very useful report. It has identified various things that work well and various things that we need to improve at an operational level. There are also some legislative recommendations in it. I have no doubt but that the health committee will take time to consider it. Then we will have a quite lively, and hopefully respectful, debate.

My driving concern relates to patient care and ensuring we have the best possible healthcare services in this country. However, I have no doubt that the report will generate debate, as we all expect. It is on a topic that is of much interest to many people, who are coming at it with the very best of intentions. We will be into the debate quite soon.

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