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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I will finish on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: However, more than 97% of the Sláintecare projects are on track.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I cannot speak to the period before I came into office-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but I can tell the Deputy that in the year and a half that we have been in office, as the Secretary General has said, the vast majority of our time, attention, focus and resource has been on the pandemic. Hopefully, we are coming out of that period now. Now, we are seeing a reorganisation in terms of the most senior leadership team for universal healthcare, a waiting list plan, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: My view is that the absolute priority is getting people access to high-quality care. That is the priority-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I am answering the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I am trying to answer that question. I am making the point that the absolute priority is that people get access to care and----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: -----as part of that, there has to be accountability. One of the huge gaps that I have seen in the system, and it is a conversation that we are having with the HSE, is a lack of data. We can have all the legal structures and legislation we want-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but without the data, we cannot hold anyone to account. One of the things we are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: If I could finish, Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The first step, and I would hope that we would agree on this, is that we have to have the information, because without the information we cannot hold anybody to account. One of the things that we are doing right now-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: ----is we are pushing ahead and putting systems in place to be able to gather and track that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: They are separate. There are two groups. One is an advisory group, which is being set up specifically to advise on regionalisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The names for the advisory group---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: We want to see representation from the front lines. In order to get the reorganisation right, it has to be something that works for our clinical and non-clinical teams working on the front lines. One of the things that the advisory group is going to be able to do is provide feedback into the Department and to me as to how the proposals would work for those working on the front lines across...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: We have not finalised it, but it will be a small group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I have views on it, but nothing that I can share just yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: No, I do not think so. We are looking for very serious individuals to provide very serious advice on what is one of the cornerstones of the reform programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: To which of us is the Deputy putting the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: We have to take any such resignation seriously. Ms Magahy is a serious person, Professor Keane is a serious person, and I take their resignations seriously. The Deputy will have seen substantial new proposals from me, the Department and the HSE on the governance of Sláintecare. I am appointing the Secretary General of the Department and the chief executive of the HSE to its...