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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Is the Minister suggesting that the resistance is diminishing or are the pockets of resistance still there? Why has there been resistance to regionalisation, given that it was an integral part of Sláintecare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: It was the considered opinion of all, including the Minister, that during the pandemic regionalisation was a potential threat or hazard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Did Minister make an announcement to that effect at the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Did the Secretary General make an announcement to that effect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Did Laura Magahy meet with all the principal officers involved on whom she depended in the course of her job and the task she was given?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Ms Magahy addressed a meeting of our committee two or three months ago and indicated that she had not met certain people or they had not met with her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Could anybody add to it such as the Secretary General?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Has anybody avoided reporting to her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: That is what I thought. I will continue for a minute on the resistance from within, which, I think, the Minister referred to as well. That is ominous. We need to know more about that than what we have been told. If there is resistance from within and the resistance has not gone away, or we have not been told where it has been sent - and, in reply to a previous question, the people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: What level of resistance exists to the realignment of the CHOs with the hospital groups?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Watt mentioned again exchanges within the system. Could they be regarded as robust exchanges? As a result of such exchanges, did it become clear that difficulties were arising that should have been averted? I am willing to take an answer from anyone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Everything comes back to the pace of the organisation during the pandemic, yet it was felt that Sláintecare was an integral and important part of the reorganisation of the health services. It would be normal to presume that any slowdown in the progress in that area would lead to difficulties, and it obviously did. Arising from the frank exchanges, did it become obvious that some members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My last question is simple and straightforward. Can the Minister give a firm undertaking now that it is intended to proceed with the implementation of the Sláintecare plan forthwith, that it will not be further impeded and that there will be no changes to the original intention of the Sláintecare plan in terms of the delivery of services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: There is more than an implication. There is an indication from a number of senior stakeholders in the system, to such an extent that they resigned. Obviously, they resigned due to disappointment, whether it related to frank exchanges, pockets of resistance or whatever. That is a fact. I asked the question about where the resisters were now, and nobody knows where they are. They could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage at present or are in course thereof; the extent to which preliminary work has taken place or on-site works are in hand or proposed; and the expected delivery date of each. [49262/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage at present or are in course thereof; the extent to which preliminary work has taken place or on-site works are in hand or proposed; the expected delivery date of each; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage at present or are in course thereof; the extent to which preliminary work has taken place or on-site works are in hand or proposed; the expected delivery date of each;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which projects that fall under his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage; the extent to which preliminary work has taken place or on-site works are in hand or proposed; the expected delivery date of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which projects that fall under his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage; the extent to which preliminary work has taken place or on-site works are in hand or proposed; the expected delivery date of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49253/21]