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

Róisín Shortall: -----that we need somebody driving that reform programme for it to happen. There were two senior people there, working on this for the past few years. They have come to the conclusion that there is serious resistance within the Department of Health and the HSE to the kind of reform and particularly the kind of accountability that was envisaged by Sláintecare.

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

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about the key issues, that is, the devolution of power and the introduction of legal accountability for clinical outcomes. That is what I am talking about. In the Sláintecare programme, a requirement was established for six pieces of legislation. One of those has been introduced, which reinstated the HSE board. It was crazy that this had to happen in the first place....

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

Róisín Shortall: But the Minister has been there long enough to know.

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but no progress has been made on legislation for accountability. I do not think I have heard the Minister use the term "accountability" at all in respect of what is required in terms of reform. Does the Minister accept the view, and the very strong view expressed by the all-party committee, and indeed, probably the number one priority shared by everybody on that committee, that the...

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

Róisín Shortall: I asked the Minister about accountability.

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

Róisín Shortall: I asked him for his view on the importance of accountability, as set out in the structures proposed by the Sláintecare plan.

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

Róisín Shortall: He has said that.

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

Róisín Shortall: That is what regionalisation is about.

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

Róisín Shortall: That is exactly part of the regionalisation plan-----

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

Róisín Shortall: There is integration, budgets on the basis of population profile and accountability for clinical outcomes.

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

Róisín Shortall: On the basis of----

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

Róisín Shortall: On the basis of what the Minister has outlined in his statement regarding giving responsibility to the Department and the HSE for their own reform, embedding Sláintecare in the Department, I think the Minister is absolutely going against the intention of Sláintecare and the democratic decision of the Dáil in terms of progressing this proposal prioritising the issue of...

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

Róisín Shortall: Ms Laura Magahy publicly announced her resignation on Tuesday, 7 September. As well as heading the Sláintecare implementation office, she was deputy secretary of the Department. When did Ms Magahy inform Mr. Watt of her intention of resigning?

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

Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Watt remember what day it was? It was the week before.

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

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.

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

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Watt said that was fine. Did he tell the Minister?

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

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Watt did not inform the Minister that the deputy secretary in his Department had decided to resign?

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

Róisín Shortall: That was a strange decision to come to. It was big news, with big implications.

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

Róisín Shortall: The implications of that decision are huge. I would have thought that since Mr. Watt works in the same building as the Minister that there would have been an obligation on him to inform the Minister of that news.

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay.