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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: To be honest, I am somewhat puzzled by that. What I see right across the system is change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: No, I have just told the Deputy why Ms Magahy may have resigned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Really, that is a question for Ms Magahy. The Deputy asked me why I thought she resigned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I have given the Deputy my understanding of the situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy may say that if she wants. She asked me what my understanding was; I have told her what my understanding is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The reasons he gave me and the reasons that he wrote to me referenced an environment in which change was impossible and a resistance to change. They are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Based on the report I got from the executive director about a week or two prior to this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Based on the report I got from the executive director-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: With respect, the Deputy may ask whatever questions she wants, but she must allow me to answer the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I will answer the question if the Deputy will allow me to answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: May I answer the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. In answer to the question as to whether change is possible, we need to look at the evidence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I might just pick up on one comment the Deputy made. I appreciate that we are tight for time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Fine. As we laid out in the opening statement, the Secretary General and the chief executive of the HSE will co-chair a board. They will have their senior teams on that. The accountability and responsibility for the major projects will be shared across the Department. As we were discussing earlier, that had not happened previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Deputy-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I am not sure what the Deputy means by open governance and oversight.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Myself, the Secretary General and the chief executive of the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy keeps saying this and I have to push back. She keeps saying that the Department and the HSE are incapable of reform and that there has been no reform.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: No, she did.