Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Over the past couple of years, a major reform programme, Sláintecare, has been under way in the Department of Health. That involves a movement to a new, lower cost model of care. We have heard from the chief executive of the HSE, the Minister for Health and the Secretary General of the Department of Health that there is real progress being made. We would all agree that progress is being made on moving to that new model of care, which is a lower cost model. That does not happen without incurring a cost. You do not click your fingers and then, next week, there is a new model of care.

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